This volume constitutes the published proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development. They present the latest and greatest concepts, approaches, and techniques of systems development - a notoriously transitional field.
From the reviews:
“The papers propose methods for clustering the data flow based on the description of transactions. ... Although the conference scope is wide, the target audience ... include middleware researchers such as software and application developers, industry researchers and engineers, academia and Internet providers, and Web administrators. ... this volume is unique and cannot be compared to any other of its kind. It covers a wide range of information systems implementations and their management. Overall, I recommend this collection to academics ... .” (Jolanta Mizera Pietraszko, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2010)