Business and Information Systems Engineering -- In Quest for Research and Education Agenda in Europe

Abstract

The new complex digital and information services systems and industries are calling for new transdisciplinary approaches on how to achieve technical, social, and cultural knowledge and skills to serve future needs of the industry and society. The leading digital industry is in demand of engineer's with knowledge and capabilities to collaborate and move between highly complex digital business and technical systems domains. The new reality is under constant transformation, highly intangible and nonlinear interconnected system. Transformative digital business innovations, rapidly evolving business models, architectures enabled business model scalability and ultra large-scale of systems are the new characteristics of this software-dominant-logic. This paper aims at covering contemporary challenges of the interdisciplinary in business, service, software and systems engineering by analyzing different research ontologies and curriculum models. The paper analyses recent Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) curriculum developments and reflects through different ontologies and recent research. Paper uses Service Design and Engineering (SDE) as a didactic and curriculum model for future Information Systems Engineering (ISE) and Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE). The new curriculums serve the needs of global information start-ups, businesses, governments, and societies. This paper aims at describing the ontological foundations and conflicts, the axiology of the new curriculum model and proposes an integrated multi-ontology as the foundation for BISE new curriculum.