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The European Conference on Web Services – New deadlines for submission!

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The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference series for both researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web services. The 9th edition of the ECOWS series will be held on September 14-16 at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Accepted papers are published by IEEE.

For a full description, see the conference site at ecows2011.inf.usi.ch

Important dates:

Abstract submission: April 25, 2011

Paper submission: April 29, 2011

 

Paper on e-service analysis presented on REFSQ’11

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On Wednesday I presented the paper “E-Service requirements from a consumer-process perspective” on the 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2011). This year REFSQ was held in Essen, Germany. The presented paper, written together with Erik Perjons, describes an approach for e-service problem and solution discovery based on the analysis of the service consumers business processes. The paper was written as a part of the SamMET research project. Read more about the SamMET project at dsv.su.se/sammet

Conference on E-Service Design

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Today, March 10, members of the  SamMET project held a conference “Utveckla vinnande e-tjänster” at Stockholm world trade center. The conference presentations included summaries of the research and case studies performed in the project.  A part of the conference concerned the created framework for e-service design.  The framework is organized as a set of method components, where each component tackles a problem in the design of e-services.  As a part of the conference Erik Perjons and I presented our work on consumer-centric e-service analysis.
Project partners in SamMET are SAS, Ericsson, The Swedish Tax Agency, IT-Plan, Linköping University and University of Skövde.The conference was organized together with Christer Berg at the Swedish Computer Society. Visit the project website at dsv.su.se/sammet

 

Project EnRiMa – site visits in Bilbao and Oviedo

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As a part of the EnRiMa FP7 project Naghmeh Aghaee and I, together with project partners from Great Britain and Austria, visited test-sites in Bilbao and Oviedo. The buildings at the test sites will be used for collecting data about energy consumption and energy transfers. In turn, this data will later be the foundation for creating a service-oriented decision support system. Currently the energy consumption and overall state of the software system can be remotely monitored and controlled. Besides the software being used, it was interesting to see how different, from a Swedish perspective, the heating of the buildings where done. In Spain it is quite common to use gas for heating, and the use of geothermal ground heat pumps is not common. During the spring we will start making a draft of the software architecture for the upcoming decision support system. For more information on the EnRiMa project, go to www.enrima-project.eu

Kick-off for the EnRiMa project!

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The EnRiMa project held its kick-off meeting in Brussel, 21-23 October.
The project will perform research and development to improve the energy efficiency of public buildings. The concrete contribution of the project will be to develop a decision-support system (DSS) for operators of energy-efficient buildings and spaces of public use. By providing integrated management of conflicting goals such as cost minimisation, meeting energy efficiency, and emission-reduction requirements as well as risk management, the DSS will enable operators to improve building energy efficiency.
The European research group includes specialists in optimization, decision support and software architecture. SysLab members Janis Stirna and Martin Henkel will work in the project, DSV is also represented by Peter Majlender and Rudolfo Candia.

The project is funded within the European 7th framework program.

Updated site on business models in health care

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The site shows some examples of how business models can be applied in health care. Each business model is described in terms of problems that they solve, existing examples of their use, and a short discussion of drawback and benefits with the model. Drawback and benefits of each model are described by linking to a set of values derived from existing quality frameworks.
– Take a look at http://dsv.su.se/vippa (site in swedish)
The site is developed as a part of the VIPPA project.

Joint article: A Framework for Goal-oriented Analysis of Healthcare Processes

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Together with Karolinska Institutet we have got a paper accepted for Medinfo’2010! In the paper we outline a framework that can aid in identifying problems in health care processes. The framework can be used for improving current care processes, as well as for the design of supporting e-health solutions. The paper contains a case study from the Vippa project.

Authors: Maria Hägglund, Martin Henkel, Jelena Zdravkovic, Paul Johannesson, Inger Rising, Ingvar Krakau and Sabine Koch

Abstract:
The development of efficient e-services for patient-centered healthcare requires insight into concrete problems in administrative and clinical work processes as well as an understanding of the strategic goals that should guide these healthcare processes. However, considering both concrete process-related problems and high-level strategic goals during process analysis and solution design can be problematic. To address this, we propose a

structured approach for analyzing both high- and low-level goals in a healthcare process and relating these to identified problems. Thereby proposed solutions for each problem in form of, e.g. e-services can be connected to

strategic goals. The approach consists of five steps; process modeling; process-based problem identification and classification; process goal identification; mapping to strategic goals; and solution proposal. The approach

is illustrated by examples from a case study of Swedish stroke care. In conclusion, the approach enables analysis of high- and low-level goals in a healthcare process by relating these to identified problems. The results thereof form a basis for redefinition of current care processes, as well as for design of supporting e-health solutions.

Vinnova proposal- Project MODIG

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In collaboration with Previa and CD Consulting we submitted a Vinnova project proposal entitled “Model and dialog driven service innovation”.

The driver behind the proposal is that change and renewal in the company health care area requires effective tools for supporting the creation of new, innovative service offerings. The project purpose is to produce instruments in the form of business models, communities and service-based IT support to facilitate service innovation within an organization. The project will be a cooperative project between Previa, Stockholm University and CD Consulting. Participants from SU/DSV will be Erik Perjons, Martin Henkel, Åsa Smedberg and Paul Johannesson.