Using Emergent Information Flow Patterns of Organization Ecosystem for Information System Management.

Ecosystems are complex associations of entities integrated in an abiotic environment. In this environment emergence arises from intra and inters specific relationships between entities, with interaction along the levels and interactions with an abiotic environment, throughout space and time. Ecosystem and complexity theory is used to support a meta-model that relies on the patterns emergence based approach. The purpose of this paper is presenting pattern΄s emergence approach as a way for designing a meta-model that makes possible dynamical adjust between information systems architectures and organization needs. From this approach, a key ecosystem characteristics, adaptation, emerges as the key factor for dynamical development of information system architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]