Category: SYSLAB

  • Mturi Elias Licentiate

    A Universal Business Process Model Repository. Mturi Elias presented his licentiate on business process model repositories. The photo shows Mturi and Jelena Zdravkovic who was the opponent. Louise Yngström was the examiner, and Paul Johannesson the supervisor. Abstract Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most important instruments to help modern organizations meet…

  • A Paper on MDA-based Transformations of Services

    At the EDOC Enterprise Computing conference (IEEE EDOC 2010), I presented a paper that proposed the elicitation of Web services, using a MDA-aligned model. In particular, we considered business value models and an established collaboration framework for creating a service-centric CIM; by utilizing well-defined mappings, the model is further transformed into a standardized UML-based e-service…

  • Göran Goldkuhl on Practical Inquiry

    Today, Göran Goldkuhl gave a seminar on action research and its continuation into practical inquiry. Action research is an established research approach in information systems. Such an approach is aiming at both 1) local intervention and improvement and 2) contribution to the scientific body of knowledge. The practical value outside the local practice is however…

  • 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,…