Category: Unit

  • Contact established with Tibco, Sweden

    In December 2007 we established a contact with Tibco, Sweden. On 3rd of December, we had a meeting with:Mark Rattley – Vice President UKI, Nordics & MEA Region,Jan Hygstedt – Country Manager Nordics, andMårten Nilsson – Solution Architect; all representatives from Tibco. From DSV Prof. Paul Johannesson, Birger Anderson, Michael Persson and myself attended the…

  • Patterns-based Evaluation of Open Source Worflow Managment Systems

    The work on patterns-based evaluation of three major open source workflow management systems was finalized in December 2007. The evaluated systems are: jBPM OpenWFE Enhydra Shark All three systems are written in Java. Paul Harmon outlines them, in his…

  • Visit at TUE, Nov 2007

    Last week of November 2007, I visited Nick Russell and Prof. Wil van der Aalst at Technical University of Eindhoven (TUE), in The Netherlands.During my visit we worked on summarising the results from our work on patterns-based evaluation of open source systems and presenting them in a paper, which we submitted to the…

  • Hans Weigand visits SYSLAB

    Hans Weigand from Tilburg University visited us at SYSLAB 17 – 20 Dec 2007. We continued our previous work on value and business modelling. In particular, we discussed how service models could be based on value models. We also discussed how value activities should be modelled, in particular the issue that a value activity may…

  • Service Engineering

    Service engineering is an approach to the study, design and implementation of service systems in which specific constellations of organizations and technologies provide value for others in the form of electronic services. Key to this approach is the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC)…

  • DSV to China in Roadshow to recruit master students 18-29 Oct 2007

    DSV is represented by Hercules Dalianis in the Road Show delegation with 60 professors from Stockholm University and 14 other Swedish universities travelling to Beijing and Shanghai in China to recruit master students, and to show Swedish research in a lot of areas. We have been visiting education fairs, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Ministry…

  • BUSITAL’08

    Jaap Gordijn at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and I are organising a workshop on business and IT alignment. BUSITAL’08. The workshop is a forum for practitioners and researchers that want to explore the benefits, challenges and solutions of business and IT alignment. The specific goal of BUSITAL 2008 is to investigate how well established and…

  • The Research in IT Management area within SYSLAB

    Why IT Management is considered an important research area today? The management of IT in organizations is now a really challenge due to the process complexity and increase in…