Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society is the collected proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society – ISD 2008 Conference, held in Paphos, Cyprus. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections between industry, research and education. • Information Systems Engineering & Management • Business Systems Analysis & Design • Intelligent Information Systems • Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods • Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption • Public Information Systems Development • Information Systems Development Education • Information Systems Development in Developing Nations • Legal and Administrative Aspects of Information Systems Development • Information Systems Research Methodologies • Service-Oriented Analysis and Design of Information Systems • IT Service Management • Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in Information Systems Development • Model-driven Engineering in Information Systems Development • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in Information Systems Development