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Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management

Book, IT Management, SYSLAB

Shang Gao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China and Lazar Rusu from Stockholm University, Sweden are the editors of a recently published book by IGI Global that is entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”. The purpose of this book is to examine how modern techniques influence IT project management and their role in managing successfully IT projects. The book includes research studies that are examining important fields of IT project management like: agile project management, IT project alignment, strategic software project governance, risk in global IT projects, distributed IS development projects to mention only a few of them. The target audiences of this book are researchers and professionals working in the fields of project management, information systems, and IT project management. For more information about this book please access the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/book/modern-techniques-successful-project-management/118238?camid=3v11

Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management - Shang Gao and Lazar Rusu -ISBN 9781466674738

AMIA 2014, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, 15-19 november Washington DC

Health Informatics, Presentation, Research Paper, SYSLAB

Sumithra Velupillai (who is currently doing a postdoc at UC San Diego and University of Utah) and I participated at the AMIA 2014 – American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, November, 15-19, Washington DC, USA. The Symposium attracted over 2000 participants mainly from USA, but also some from Europe and other parts of the world. It covers all areas of medical informatics. We were specifically interested in Natural Language Processing of health records.

Sumithra presented a poster co-authored with Danielle Mowery, Lee Christensen, Noemie Elhadad, Sameer Pradhan, Guergana Savova and Wendy W Chapman entitled Disease/Disorder Semantic Template Filling – Information Extraction Challenge in the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014. The poster was about the CLEFeHealth 2014 task 2 held at CLEF in Sheffield, U.K. where the task was to normalize and detect a number of semantic modifiers linked to disease/disorder mentions in clinical text.

I participated in a panel jointly with Aurélie Névéol (France), Guergana Savova (U.S.A. and Bulgaria) and Pierre Zweigenbaum (France) with the title Clinical Natural Language Processing in Languages Other Than English. We discussed how to perform NLP,  use tools and create annotations in other languages than English. Only 10 per cent of all NLP publications in PubMed involve other languages than English.
Sumithra and I have the proceedings and we have also written a short report in Swedish from the symposium, please contact us if you want a copy.

Below are some photos

IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast

Health Informatics, Photo, Presentation, SYSLAB

Jing Zhao and Aron Henriksson attended the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast, UK on November 2-5, 2014. The scientific program this year consisted of 111 papers, including two regular papers from DSV. Jing presented the paper “Detecting Adverse Drug Events with Multiple Representations of Clinical Measurements”, co-authored with Aron Henriksson, Lars Asker and Henrik Boström. Aron presented the paper “Generating Features for Named Entity Recognition by Learning Prototypes in Semantic Space: The Case of De-Identifying Health Records”, co-authored with Hercules Dalianis and Stewart Kowalski.

Open Seminar with Dr. Dragos Vieru

IT Management, Photo, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

On October 24, 2014 at DSV, Dr. Dragos Vieru from Distance Learning University of Quebec (Télé-Université du Québec), Canada has given an open seminar regarding “Working Under Grey Skies: Information Systems Development and Social Mechanisms in a Post-merger Context”. The seminar was organized by the IT Management group within IS unit at DSV.  The slides of the presentation are available here Presentation-Dragos Vieru
A short description about our guest speaker and a picture from the seminar you could find below.

Speaker:
Dragos Vieru is an Assistant Professor at Distance Learning University of Quebec. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology at HEC Montréal and a MSc in MIS from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal. His research interests are in the areas of IT-enabled organizational change, knowledge sharing, and IT governance. Dragos Vieru has published papers in International Journal of Information Management (journal ranked ‘A’ in Information and Library Sciences category), the International Journal of Social & Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology and in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. He is chair of the minitrack (Organizational and Social Dynamics in Information Technology mini-track) at the AMCIS and co-chair of the same minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). He has over 15 years of professional experience in IT project management in the health care industry.

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Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48)

IT Management, Publication, Research Paper, SYSLAB

A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Ivan Nunes, Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi, entitled: “Does Organizational Culture Matter in IT Outsourcing Relationships?“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.

A paper written by Mohamed El Mekawy, Lazar Rusu, Erik Perjons, Karl-Johan Sedvall and Murat Ekici entitled: “From Theory to Practice: Barriers to Business-IT Alignment in Organizations Acting in Sweden“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48), January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is a top ranked conference in Information Systems and is ranked “A” according to The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA) (http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806).

The publisher of the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is IEEE Computer Society: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/diglib.htm.

EnRiMa Final Review held in Brussels

BPM and Enterprise Modeling, Networking, Photo, Presentation, Prototype, SYSLAB

The 28 May, Janis and I went to the final review meeting of the FP7 EU project EnRiMa. The purpose of the EnRiMa project has been to reduce the energy consumption in public buildings by providing an innovative decision support system. During the review meeting the consortium demonstrated how the final system worked. Particular emphasis was put the systems integration with building management systems, making is possible for the system to control equipment installed in the building based on preferred indoor temperatures, weather forecasts and minimized energy consumption. Stockholm University has been the coordinator of the project, and has worked with the systems software and information architecture, graphical user interface and the evaluation of the system.
For further information on the project visit http://enrima-project.eu

The EnRiMa review

Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of AMCIS 2014, HICSS-47, PACIS 2014 and CAiSE 2014

IT Management, Publication, Research Paper, SYSLAB, Unit

A number of five papers written by the members of IT management group have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of top conferences in information systems area (AMCIS 2014, HICSS-47, PACIS 2014 and CAiSE 2014).

A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han and entitled: “The Role of Culture in IT Governance“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014), August 7-10, 2014, Savannah, Georgia, USA.

A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han (Stockholm University, Sweden), entitled: “The Influence of Culture on IT Governance: A Literature Review“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47), January 6-9, 2014, Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

A paper written by Mohamed El Mekawy, Lazar Rusu and Erik Perjons and entitled: “The Impact of Business-IT Alignment on Organizational Culture “ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), June 24-28, 2014, Chengdu, China.

A paper written by Jens Ohlsson, Shengnan Han, Paul Johannesson and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Developing a Method for Prioritizing Business Process Improvement Initiatives“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), June 24-28, 2014, Chengdu, China.

A paper written by Jens Ohlsson, Shengnan Han, Paul Johannesson, Fredrik Carpenhall and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Prioritizing Business Processes Improvement Initiatives: The Seco Tools Case“ has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2014), 16-20 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Visiting UCSD and University of Utah

Health Informatics, Photo, Presentation, SYSLAB, Visit

Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams, in particular ADEs that are perceived to have been caused by tobacco cessation products. This project will continue over the coming months.

Sumithra Velupillai, who is currently doing a postdoc in San Diego, and Aron also visited Salt Lake City, where they gave a joint talk at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, headed by Professor Wendy Chapman. The talk described their respective research efforts and that of the Clinical Text Mining group as a whole.

Both visits were very inspiring, and on our way from San Diego to Salt Lake City, we took the opportunity to take in the spectacular Grand Canyon!