Martin Hassel and Alyaa Alfalahi presenting the Stockholm EPR Open project at Vinnova. The prototype DrugView where one can see in-patient groups and their intake of at least two medical drugs.
Coling 2012, Bombay, India, 9-14 December
The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2012 took place in Bombay (Mumbai) India, December 9-14. It is the largest computational linguistics conference in the world. At the conference were 600 participants from 60 countries. 1600 papers were submitted to the conference and 400 were accepted, that gives an acceptance rate of 25 percent.
Claudia Ehrentraut my master student from Uppsala University presented our paper: Detection of Hospital Acquired Infections in sparse and noisy Swedish patient records. A machine learning approach using Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines and C4.5, that was written by Claudia Ehrentraut, Hideyuki Tanushi, Hercules Dalianis and Jörg Tiedemann at the workshop Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, AND 2012 that was held in conjunction with the conference.
We have written a short report from the conference, if you would like to have it please contact me.
Best Paper Award
The paper ”Capability Driven Development – an Approach to Support Evolving Organizations” written by Janis Stirna, Janis Grabis, Martin Henkel and Jelena Zdravkovic has been awarded for being among the best papers in the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) conference 2012. The paper describes how the concepts of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, capability context and capability delivery patterns can be used to integrate organizational capability development with IS development.
Mohamed El-Mekawy’s Licentiate Seminar
On November 30, 2012 our colleague Mohamed El-Mekawy has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis entitled: “From Societal to Organizational Culture: The Impact on Business-IT Alignment”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Mohamed for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.
DSV sponsored the Global Forum 2012: Shaping a connected digital future
Call for papers to the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases: Special issue on Business, Strategy & IT Alignment
Here is a call for papers to the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jittc/index.html): Special issue on Business, Strategy & IT Alignment (Editors: Jerry Luftman, Lazar Rusu, & Martin Santana).
This special issue on IT business alignment cases will provide examples of successes and failures that demonstrate the importance of the IT business relationship. For this special issue, specific areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Best Practices in Business-IT Alignment
- Effective Communications
- Demonstrable Competency/Value Analytics
- Applicable Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Governance Processes
- Successful Partnerships
- Deployable Leading Edge IT Services; Scope & Architecture
- Successful Skills/HR Initiatives
- Exemplary IT Strategy Planning Activities
- Enablers and Inhibitors to Alignment
- Models for Managing Change
- Lessons in Organizational Design
- Strategic IT Initiatives (e.g., moves to digital business)
Deadlines:
We are targeting the special issue publication for December 2013. The time-line is:
- Abstracts of case – March 1st 2013
- Full case and teaching note submitted – June 1st 2013
- Reviews returned – July 1st 2013
- Second submission – August 30th 2013
- Final Acceptance – September 30th 2013
For more information about this call for papers please have a look here: JIT Teaching Cases – Call for papers
Papers accepted for publication in journals and in the proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2012
In this year a number of papers written by the members of IT management group and master students at KTH (that IT management group members has supervised on their master thesis work) were accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance and in the Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012).
The first paper is entitled “A Risk Based View of Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship for Large Multinational Companies “ and was written by Georg Hodosi, Lazar Rusu and Seungho Choo (former KTH-EMIS student). The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, IGI Global, 2012.
The second paper is entitled “The impact of different organizational cultures on IT outsourcing relationship management” and was written by Seyedeh Parisa Aasi (KTH-EMIS student), Ivan Nunes (KTH-EMIS student), Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, IGI Global, 2012.
The third paper is entitled “An Organizational Culture Perspective in Business-IT Alignment” and was written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Ehsan Kaboudvand (former KTH-EMIS student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, IGI Global, 2012.
The fourth paper is entitled “Important Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship, a Model Development and Verification in Major National Companies”, and was written by Georg Hodosi, Rickard Rickmo (former KTH-IT student), Jan-Kamil Rembisch (former KTH-IT student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 9-11, 2012.
Presentation in Oslo, May 30th
I was invited to give a talk in a seminar series held at the Language Technology Group (LTG), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, on May 30th. The talk was entitled Shades of Certainty — Working with Swedish Medical Records and the Stockholm EPR Corpus and was about my recent dissertation work as well as ongoing and planned research within the Health Care Analytics and Modeling research group here at DSV.
It was a wonderful visit, thank you for inviting me, for interesting feedback and questions, and for a fantastic day and evening!
happy audience