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Project statement 1:
Discuss the problem of Information Systems Assurance from the point of view of Information Integrity .

Summary of what the project is about:
Information systems provide support for management at all levels- operational control, management control, and strategic planning. Each of these classes of management activity includes planning, control and decision making. This makes information a critical organizational resource in that incorrect, inconsistent and unreliable information has an adverse effect on organizational performance.
At another level, correct and complete information requirements are key ingredients in planning information systems, in implementing information systems applications, and in building databases. For IS applications integrated with databases, this calls for careful planning and significant communication effort between users and information system designers.
From the IS modeling point of view, this suggests process-based description at all levels of enterprise hierarchy and activities linking IS model with user, i. e. customer, internal as well as external and direct as well as indirect. Here processes constitute the means by which enterprise delivers added value to its customers. This facilitates description of enterprise structure via processes, rather than by vertical links, via functions and activities. Users (human as well as machines) are thus fundamental source of requirements, but in the face of complex and changing environments it is difficult for users to define them resulting in incorrect and incomplete information requirements and having adverse effect on IS performance.
All this makes information system assurance through dependability or trustworthiness of information, i.e., Information Integrity critical for competitiveness.

A "classification category" name for this project [e.g. industry, academia, UG, PG students, assignment, short project, etc]

  • Academic project
    • Of particular interest to UG students of computer science, software engineering, auditing and PG students of management with particular interest in information systems.
  • Industry oriented project
    • Of particular interest to practicing software engineers

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Project statement 2:
Develop a planning framework for Information Integrity for Complex Business Environment characterized by Uncertainty.

Summary of what the project is about:
 This paper investigates the research issue of Information Integrity for complex business environment characterized by uncertainty. Specifically, the paper begins by studying the nature of business environment and its Information Integrity implications. This is followed by discussion on planning framework for homogeneous business environment with 'no surprises,' which the paper identifies as 'closed' system. This leads to the study of informational view of the complex business environment for its Information Integrity implications. The paper argues that complex systems are essentially 'open' systems which with time undertake shifts in IS goal, direction and targets (standards - for plans and programs). These shifts and the uncertainty due to system complexity and other system environmental factors discussed, go to infest the IS with hitherto unknown errors resulting in loss of integrity. This calls for "adaptive learning" as an requirement for the planning framework. Accordingly then the paper goes on to construct the components of the Information Integrity planning framework for a complex business environment. Specifically, in addition to adaptive learning capability, the Information Integrity planning framework, among other systems, comprises the servo control systems built around the meaningful use of above mentioned pre-estimated targets (standards), so as to bring about improvements in processes, operations, and inputs by controlling them so as to achieve desired outputs and meeting business system objectives in accordance with the pre-determined standards (targets). Finally, the paper presents a conceptual view of the systems representation of the planning framework.

A "classification category" name for this project [e.g. industry, academia, UG, PG students, assignment, short project, etc]

  • Academic project
    • Of particular interest to UG students of computer science, software engineering, auditing and PG students of management with particular interest in information systems.
  • Industry oriented project
    • Of particular interest to practicing software engineers

View the Project Framework

 

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