A Study of Computer Information Systems Discipline with Layout and Analysis

9 pages•Published: March 13, 2019

Mohamed Shenify, Hisham Al-Mubaid, Sultan Aljahdali and Abdulaziz Alangari

Abstract

Computer Information Systems (CIS) is manifesting itself as an important discipline and career path in most universities with excellent career potentials. There is some little misperception and mixing of concepts in CIS with other closely related subjects. This paper is deliberate layout and manifestation of CIS in today’s world of industry and commerce. Specifically, we explain CIS and compare it with other subjects like Computer Science in particular because of the big overlap between these two areas. We will layout the main points and concepts in three dimensions: (1) What is CIS based on how we as faculty and educators understand it. (2) The confusion in CIS, and how people understand it, and think of it. (3) How official sources (AIS, ABET, ACM) explain it. We discuss and reason that CIS programs, which are basically IS programs hosted in computing departments, are not meeting their expectations very well which led to new disciplines developed in the past few years like Data Science, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence. Finally, we explain and present, an investigation dimension using two methods of investigation to support our findings.

Keyphrases: cis relationship with other computing disciplines, computer information systems curriculum, computer science education

In: Gordon Lee and Ying Jin (editors). Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, vol 58, pages 27-35.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/QLF6
	https://doi.org/10.29007/nz9w

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CATA2019:Study_Computer_Information_Systems,
  author    = {Mohamed Shenify and Hisham Al-Mubaid and Sultan Aljahdali and Abdulaziz Alangari},
  title     = {A Study of Computer Information Systems Discipline with Layout and Analysis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications},
  editor    = {Gordon Lee and Ying Jin},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {58},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/QLF6},
  doi       = {10.29007/nz9w},
  pages     = {27-35},
  year      = {2019}}

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