The paper Factuality Levels of Diagnoses in Swedish Clinical Text which I’ve written together with Hercules Dalianis and Maria Kvist has been accepted to the XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011), which will be held in Oslo, Norway 28th–31st August 2011. The paper describes work on an annotation project where clinical diagnoses were annotated for factuality levels, for the purpose of building automated systems for enhanced future information access. The paper will be included in the MEDLINE indexed proceedings, published by IOS Press in Amsterdam.
Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011), Detroit, USA, 4-7 August, 2011
The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011) that in this year will be held in Detroit, USA from 4-7 August, 2011 (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/) is a top ranked conference in Information Systems area according to The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA): http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/?page=cfordet10&selfor=0806
In this year three papers written by the members of IT Management group were accepted for publication (two as papers and one as poster) in the proceedings of AMCIS 2011. The authors of the papers, the title and the abstract are included below.
The first paper is written by Edephonce Nfuka and Lazar Rusu, and is entitled: “Critical Success Factors Framework for Implementing Effective IT Governance in Public Sector Organizations in a Developing Country”.
Abstract
Several frameworks for IT governance exist with various approaches like for example COBIT or ITIL. However neither of these frameworks has looked on implementing an effective IT governance from the point of view of Critical Success Factors (CSFs). Therefore in this paper, we have specifically addressed this gap by developing a framework of CSFs for implementing effective IT governance (CEITG) in public sector organizations in a developing country like Tanzania. This was achieved using four previous studies in this environment as a basis, together with interviews with 43 IT and business people from 25 public sector organizations, 6 industry/academic experts and finally through a case study in an organization in this environment during CEITG development and evaluation. The results of this research is a high level and holistic view framework based on CSFs and the activities in each IT governance focus area that should be considered by IT and business management personnel in the process of implementing effective IT governance in public sector organizations in Tanzania.
The second paper is written by Anayanci Lopez, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson, and is entitled ”Construction of a Maturity Model for Analyzing Strategic IT Service Management”.
Abstract
The paper presents the construction of a maturity model for analyzing the strategic IT service management (ITSM) process of internal IT service provider’s in early growth stages. This model is presented as an alternative tool for improving the understanding, from an IT service management perspective, of: (i) the strategic IT processes/practices in an IT organization, and (ii) facilitates the improvement task of such IT organization. The model construction is done by using a combination of best practices of IT service management and IT governance together with characteristics specific to the object under analysis, e.g. internal IT service providers, municipal governments standards. The model uses a wider scope for strategic ITSM which facilitates its applicability in IT organizations in early growth stages, giving a practical value to the model. Furthermore this model is designed to be used independently or as a complementary component of a method for analyzing IT service strategy presented in a previous study.
The third paper is written by Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu, and is entitled “A Risk Based View of Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship for Large Swedish Companies”.
Abstract
Today IT Outsourcing (ITO) is well spread among the large Swedish companies and this trend will continue in the near years. Our focus in this research is a service buyer company who needs a well working relation with its ITO supplier for fixing: emergent issues, daily operation and changes that have not been foreseen. In the last years, an increasing attention has been paid to improving ITO relationship. In the review of the research literature we have not found any studies about Influential Factors (IFs) that could improve ITO relationship in large Swedish companies, nor about how risks factors are interrelated to the ITO relationship. Therefore this research has addressed this problem by providing the IFs that could improve ITO relationship in large Swedish companies and could help the service buyers companies’ to focus on these IFs. Additionally, we have developed a framework that could support the ITO decision makers in both mitigating the risks and the improvement of the ITO relationship.
Paper accepted!
“The geography and organisation of the global knowledge economy – Examples of ICT firms in Sweden and India” by Brita Hermelin (Geography, SU), Harko Verhagen and Robert Demir (School of Business, SU) has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) June 27-29 in London, UK.
2 papers accepted within 15 minutes!
A new personal record, received 2 paper accepts within 15 minutes yesterday.
Paper 1 – accepted for presentation at The social side of gaming in Stuttgart in July.
Social believable NPCs: a conceptual model and analysis of current NPC models – Harko Verhagen, Mirjam Eladhari, Magnus Johansson
Paper 2: accepted for presentation at 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning in Athens in October.
Model of Social Believable NPCs for Teacher Training – Harko Verhagen, Mirjam Eladhari, Magnus Johansson
Paper on e-service analysis presented on REFSQ’11
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
Paper accepted in EMMSAD 2011 Conference
A paper titled “Analyzing the Integration between Requirements and Models in Model Driven Development” has been accepted for the EMMSAD 2011 Conference (http://www.emmsad.org/), which is held in conjunction with CAiSE 2011 in London, UK.
Authors: Iyad Zikra, Janis Stirna, Jelena Zdravkovic
Abstract: In Model Driven Development (MDD), models replace software code as the development artifact. At the same time, requirements represent the information that is elaborated in models. However, despite the tight relationship between models and requirements, only a few MDD approaches provide the necessary methodological guidelines and tool support to explicitly facilitate this relationship. In this paper, we analyze existing approaches for integrating requirements with models within MDD. Based on the analysis, we elicit a set of general properties that need to be fulfilled when considering the integration of requirements and models, and we assess the contribution of the considered approaches accordingly.
Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of Conf-IRM2011 and WSKS 2011 conferences
Three papers written by the members of IT Management group were accepted for publication in the proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM2011), Seoul, South Korea (http://conf-irm2011.org) and in the proceedings of the 4th World Summit on Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011), Mykonos, Greece (http://www.wsks.org/).
The first paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Conf-IRM2011(published in AIS e-library) is having as authors: Johnny Flores Delgadillo, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson and is named “A Maturity Model of IT Service Delivery”. The paper is proposing a maturity model that is oriented to formalize and assess the maturity levels of IT service delivery. The maturity model is supported by IT service delivery elements that are considered significant for managing IT service delivery in the Nicaraguan Internet Service Providers sector, by IT service concepts and maturity model properties complemented by the IT Service Capability Maturity Model.
The second paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Conf-IRM2011 (published in AIS e-library) is having as authors Anayanci Lopez Poveda, Lazar Rusu and Paul Johannesson and is named “Improving a Method for Analysing Information Technology Service Strategy in Governmental Organisations in Nicaragua: Ex-post Analysis”. The paper is presented the improvement of a method for analyzing IT service strategy from the perspective of the implementer and designer after the use of the method in the context of Governmental Organisations in Nicaragua.
The third paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of WSKS 2011 (published in Springer series in Communications in Computer and Information Science) is having as authors Hari Nugroho, Gamaludin Al Afghani, Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu and is named “Key Factors in Managing IT Outsourcing Relationships”. The paper is presented an analysis of the key factors in managing IT outsourcing relationships that were elicited from the IT outsourcing relationships research and which were applied in the case of three organizations in Sweden.
IMAIL paper at CICLing 2011, Tokyo, February 21
Our paper from the IMAIL-project with the title Comparing Manual Text Patterns and Machine Learning for Classification of E-Mails for Automatic Answering by a Government Agency by H. Dalianis, J. Sjöbergh and E. Sneiders, were presented at CICLing 2011, 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 20-26, Tokyo, Japan, by Jonas Sjöbergh who participates in the IMAIL project from KTH. The proceedings were printed in Springer Verlag.
The paper shows that a manual approach to create rules for answering e-mails (in Swedish) is more accurate than using a machine learning approach, though a machine learning approach gives higher recall.
CICLing had around 100 participants below a couple of photos.
