Category: SYSLAB
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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.…
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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…
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IS-seminarie: Rebecka Forsberg talks about artistic technologies
Rebecca Forsberg talked about artistic technologies and what that is. She told us that many universities in the world has their own theatre, now Stockholm University has it own theatre through Kista teater. Rebecca continued by saying that the audience at theaters are becoming older and older and for reaching young people one has to involve…
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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.
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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.…
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Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference, SLTC 2012
Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson, Maria Skeppstedt and Sidrat ul Muntaha attended the Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference in Lund, October 25-26. Research in language technology, mainly on the Swedish language, was presented as oral presentations or as posters. There were a number of contributions about text simplification and text summarisation. We presented two…
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IS-Seminar: Service Science and Innovation Centre (SSI) presented their work
Andreas Nilsson and Elin Uppström presented the Service Science and Innovation Centre (SSI). One statement they have is that 70 percent of the GDP is within services, and that services wrongly is considered to be products. They continued by presenting some of their projects as well as some of their publications, specially the project App Market, where an…
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Two posters at CLEF eHealth, Rome, 17-20 September 2012
Mattias Kanhov and Sumithra Velupillai attended and presented two posters at the CLEF eHealth workshop organized at the CLEF conference in Rome, 17 – 20 September 2012. Mattias presented work about his and his fellow student Xuefeng Feng’s master theses, supervised by prof. Hercules Dalianis, in the poster Natural Language Generation from SNOMED Specifications. Sumithra presented…