Teaching Object-Oriented Approach for Business Information Systems Analysis and Design
Shouhong Wang
This paper discusses issues of why the object-oriented approach should be taught for students in business information systems, whatconstructs of the object-oriented methodology shonld be included in a systems analysis and design course, and how business faculty can better teach the object-oriented approach.
Shouhong Wang is a professor of business information systems at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his PhD (1990) in information systems from McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Wang's research interests include systems analysis and design, artificial intelligence in business, and electronic commerce. He has published over 50 papers in academic joumals, including Journal of Management Information Systems, Information & Management, Intemational Journal of Information Management, Human Systems Management, Information Systems Management, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Computers & Operations Research, Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on PatterAnalysis and Machine Intelligence, Journal ofThe Operational Research Society, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Resources Management Journal, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Information & Systems Engineering, INFOR, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Computational Intelligence, Canadian Journal ofAdministrative Science, International Journal of Production Economics, Knowledge and Information Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, Neural Computing & Applications, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Industrial Management and Data Systems, and others. Dr. Wang's biographies have appeared in Canadian Who's Who since 1995 and Who's Who in America since 2000.
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