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Research visit of Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

IT Management, Location, Networking, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB, Visit

During June 1st to June 3rd, 2016 the IT Management group at DSV has been the host of the visit of Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. The purpose of the visit has been to establish a research collaboration between the research group in IT Management at DSV and IT Management and Governance research group at the Business School at PUCRS.

Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano is leading the research group in IT Management and Governance at Business School at PUCRS that we noticed to have similar research interests with the research done by the IT Management group at DSV. For more information about Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano’s research please access the following links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edimara_Mezzomo_Luciano/  and http://lattes.cnpq.br/2607532326321244 

On June 2nd, 2016 we had a seminar at DSV in which Professor Edimara Mezzomo Luciano has done a presentation concerning “Information Systems in Brazil and at PUCRS: current status and perspectives” . The seminar has also included discussions with the members of the research group in IT Management and a presentation of the recent research done in IT Management area at DSV.

The research visit has been a fruitful one and has opened different possibilities for establishing a research cooperation between DSV and Business School at PUCRS.

Mohamed El-Mekawy has nailed his PhD thesis in DSV library

IT Management, Location, Photo, Publication, SYSLAB, Unit

Today, Mohamed El-Mekawy PhD student in IT Management group at DSV has nailed his PhD thesis in DSV library. The PhD thesis is entitled “From Theory to Practice of Business-IT Alignment: Barriers, an Evaluation Framework and Relationships with Organisational Culture”. A copy of his PhD thesis is available to be downloaded at the following link: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:920065/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Mohamed El-Mekawy’s PhD defence will take place on June 3, 2016 at 13.00 in L50 at DSV.

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PhD training school in De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content

Audio, Digital Systems Security, E-government, Health Informatics, Photo, Presentation, SYSLAB, Video

I participated as a lecturer at the EU-COST funded PhD training school in De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content, in Limassol Cyprus, in the beginning of October 2015.

De-identification for pricacy protection of multimedia content as speech, text, images, data is a new research area with the growing amount of available streaming data for research. The main research question is how to use data that contain individuals without revealing the identity of the person. One can blur faces in an movie but still the motion pattern of the person can be identified. One can also blur voices, but the way an individual expresses himself can reveal the person. There are several challenges around the privacy protection that has to be solved.

The training school had participants from the whole Europe and the USA, from the areas of image and movie processing, speech and text processing but also law.

EU will have several calls for research projects in this area next year

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Jens Ohlsson’s Licentiate Seminar

IT Management, Licentiate Seminar, Photo, SYSLAB

On March 9, 2015 our colleague Jens Ohlsson has defended successfully his Licentiate Thesis entitled: “Supporting Business Process Improvement Initiatives by Prioritizing and Categorizing Business Processes”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Jens for his achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included below.

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IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast

Health Informatics, Photo, Presentation, SYSLAB

Jing Zhao and Aron Henriksson attended the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast, UK on November 2-5, 2014. The scientific program this year consisted of 111 papers, including two regular papers from DSV. Jing presented the paper “Detecting Adverse Drug Events with Multiple Representations of Clinical Measurements”, co-authored with Aron Henriksson, Lars Asker and Henrik Boström. Aron presented the paper “Generating Features for Named Entity Recognition by Learning Prototypes in Semantic Space: The Case of De-Identifying Health Records”, co-authored with Hercules Dalianis and Stewart Kowalski.

Open Seminar with Dr. Dragos Vieru

IT Management, Photo, Presentation, Slides, SYSLAB

On October 24, 2014 at DSV, Dr. Dragos Vieru from Distance Learning University of Quebec (Télé-Université du Québec), Canada has given an open seminar regarding “Working Under Grey Skies: Information Systems Development and Social Mechanisms in a Post-merger Context”. The seminar was organized by the IT Management group within IS unit at DSV.  The slides of the presentation are available here Presentation-Dragos Vieru
A short description about our guest speaker and a picture from the seminar you could find below.

Speaker:
Dragos Vieru is an Assistant Professor at Distance Learning University of Quebec. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology at HEC Montréal and a MSc in MIS from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal. His research interests are in the areas of IT-enabled organizational change, knowledge sharing, and IT governance. Dragos Vieru has published papers in International Journal of Information Management (journal ranked ‘A’ in Information and Library Sciences category), the International Journal of Social & Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology and in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. He is chair of the minitrack (Organizational and Social Dynamics in Information Technology mini-track) at the AMCIS and co-chair of the same minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). He has over 15 years of professional experience in IT project management in the health care industry.

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EnRiMa Final Review held in Brussels

BPM and Enterprise Modeling, Networking, Photo, Presentation, Prototype, SYSLAB

The 28 May, Janis and I went to the final review meeting of the FP7 EU project EnRiMa. The purpose of the EnRiMa project has been to reduce the energy consumption in public buildings by providing an innovative decision support system. During the review meeting the consortium demonstrated how the final system worked. Particular emphasis was put the systems integration with building management systems, making is possible for the system to control equipment installed in the building based on preferred indoor temperatures, weather forecasts and minimized energy consumption. Stockholm University has been the coordinator of the project, and has worked with the systems software and information architecture, graphical user interface and the evaluation of the system.
For further information on the project visit http://enrima-project.eu

The EnRiMa review

Visiting UCSD and University of Utah

Health Informatics, Photo, Presentation, SYSLAB, Visit

Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams, in particular ADEs that are perceived to have been caused by tobacco cessation products. This project will continue over the coming months.

Sumithra Velupillai, who is currently doing a postdoc in San Diego, and Aron also visited Salt Lake City, where they gave a joint talk at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, headed by Professor Wendy Chapman. The talk described their respective research efforts and that of the Clinical Text Mining group as a whole.

Both visits were very inspiring, and on our way from San Diego to Salt Lake City, we took the opportunity to take in the spectacular Grand Canyon!