Category: Unit

  • A Service related visit

    Syslab had once again the pleasure to welcome Hans Weigand and Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige from Tilburg University for a short visit. The main purpose was to work on a particular kind of service which we tentatively call management service. A mangement service is a service that, in some sense, govern some other service. This work…

  • The 17th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

    Mira Kajko-Mattson (KTH), Emil Hammargren and me (SU), have written a paper that has been accepted to APSEC, the leading international conference in software engineering and technology in the Asia-Pacific region. It’s an IEEE conference that this year is held in Sydney, Australia. The paper evaluates the CM cube emergency problem model by comparing similarities…

  • mHealth Summit 2010

    Earlier this month, a conference on mHealth was held in Washington DC (Nov 8-10). Policy makers, company representatives, technical people, health professionals and people from the academia came together for presentations, expert panels, networking and sharing of experiences. Different mHealth services and products were introduced, and trends in mobility and mobile applications were discussed.…

  • CIKM ’10 and 3rd ESAIR

    October 27th-30th, I attended the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’10), and the Third Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2010), in Toronto, Canada. The CIKM ’10 conference had over 600 participants from all over the world, with tracks covering the topic areas Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management and Databases.…

  • A Paper on Service Perspectives

    At the workshop Conceptual Modelling of Services (CMS 2010), colocated with the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, I presented a paper that analysed the notion of services by identifying three service perspectives and explaining them using the REA ontology and Hohfeld’s classification of rights. The workshop included a quite similar paper by Geert Poels,…

  • 29th ER Conference 2010 in Vancouver

    The premier conceptual modeling conference. Birger Andersson and I participated in the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 1 – 4, 2010. The ER conference series is a forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum…

  • Open seminar on security metrics

    Speakers: Stewart Kowalski, Associate Professor, DSV, Stockholm University Mr. Reijo M Savola, Senior Research Scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Mr. Kevin Stine, Information Security Specialist in the Security Management and Assurance Group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Computer Security Division Organizer: The project COINS (Controlled Information Security)…

  • Seminar on “IT Management Research in DSV: Quo Vadis?”

    On November 2, 2010 I have made a presentation in the seminar with senior researchers’ from our department (DSV) concerning “IT Management Research in DSV: Quo Vadis?”. My presentation has approached the main concepts in IT Management and the importance of research in this area, the tre…