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IS-Seminar: Service Science and Innovation Centre (SSI) presented their work

Information Systems, Service Science, SYSLAB

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 Enterprise system vendor has created Apps of the business system so they easily can be adapted to the enterprise. This has completely changed the business model,  one can read more here (in Swedish) .

Andreas and Elin also presented the project MUNZIAPP that is a M-(Mobile) government system for complaint- and problem management specially for municipalities where one can take a photo of something that is broken or need maintenance in the municipality and the send the report, photo and the GPS coordinates to the municipality for repair. The project in founded by Vinnova and Nordforsk with ten participating municipalities from Sweden, software vendors are Idega from Icelandand Mobisoft from Estonia.

Two posters at CLEF eHealth, Rome, 17-20 September 2012

Health Informatics, SYSLAB

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 results from the one-year master student Niklas Isenius work on abbreviation detection from Swedish clinical records, co-supervised with Dr. Maria Kvist, in the poster Initial Results in the Development of SCAN: a Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer.

The conference and workshop was very interesting and Mattias and Sumithra had the opportunity to meet prominent researchers in the area of eHealth and Information Access evaluation from perspectives of multilinguality, multimodality and visual analytics, in the beautiful city of Rome.

Mattias Kanhov with Karl Kreiner from Austria

 

 

 

Final HEXAnord meeting Copenhagen 12-14 Sept 2012

Health Informatics, SYSLAB

Our Nordforsk funded researcher network HEXAnord had its final meeting in Copenhagen at Panum Institute where our host CBS (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis) that belongs partly to DTU and to University of Copenhagen partly is situated. 27 members of the network participated in the 7th HEXAnord meeting and we had two invited speakers; Konstantinos Pantazos from IT University of Copenhagen, that talked about visualization of lab-processes in a health care domain and Lars Juhl Jensen that talked about the Reflex Text mining tool for molecules in scientific journals. Moreover three of our hosts Peter Jensen, Lars Juhl Jensen and Søren Brunak had a review article in Nature (May 2012) with the title Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care. That shows the potential of our research area, therefore we were inspired to extend our network to an European COST-network that we are applying for now. We finalized our meeting with a visit at Copenhagen Tivoli.

 

ICML 2012 in Edinburgh

Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

Last week (June 26-July 1) I attended the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Edinburgh. At the ICML workshop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis, I presented the following two papers:

  • Exploration of Adverse Drug Reactions in Semantic Vector Space Models of Clinical Text by Aron Henriksson, Maria Kvist, Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis
  • De-identifying health records by means of active learning by Henrik Boström and Hercules Dalianis

The workshop brought together researchers in machine learning, natural language processing and medical informatics who are trying to exploit the availability of large amounts of clinical data in order to improve disease detection, chronic disease management, design of clinical trials and other aspects of health care.

Clinical NLP workshop, June 21st 2012

Health Informatics, SYSLAB

On June 21st, 2012, we organized a one-day Clinical NLP workshop here at DSV with participants from the Interlock and HEXAnord projects. We had visitors from the US, Australia, Norway, Lithunia, Gothenburg as well as some participants from DSV. The talks were about ongoing research on Clinical NLP in the different research groups. It was a very nice and successful day, thanks to all!

Workshop participants

Hanna Suominen’s presentation and participation over Skype

Mike Conway’s presentation

Danielle Mowery’s presentation

Brian Chapman’s presentation

Wendy Chapman’s presentation

Dimitrios Kokkinakis’ presentation

Maria Kvist’s presentation

Laura Slaughter and Øystein

Hans Moen’s presentation

Dinner cruise to Waxholm in the evening

A beautiful evening

Papers accepted for publication in journals and in the proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2012

IT Management, Journal, Location, Publication, Research Paper, Specific Area, SYSLAB, Unit

In this year a number of papers written by the members of IT management group and master students at KTH (that IT management group members has supervised on their master thesis work) were accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance and in the Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012).

The first paper is entitled “A Risk Based View of Influential Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship for Large Multinational Companies “ and was written by Georg Hodosi, Lazar Rusu and Seungho Choo (former KTH-EMIS student). The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, IGI Global, 2012.

The second paper is entitled “The impact of different organizational cultures on IT outsourcing relationship management” and was written by Seyedeh Parisa Aasi (KTH-EMIS student), Ivan Nunes (KTH-EMIS student), Lazar Rusu and Georg Hodosi. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, IGI Global, 2012.

The third paper is entitled “An Organizational Culture Perspective in Business-IT Alignment” and was written by Mohamed El-Mekawy, Ehsan Kaboudvand (former KTH-EMIS student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, IGI Global, 2012.

The fourth paper is entitled “Important Factors in IT Outsourcing Relationship, a Model Development and Verification in Major National Companies”, and was written by Georg Hodosi, Rickard Rickmo (former KTH-IT student), Jan-Kamil Rembisch (former KTH-IT student) and Lazar Rusu. The paper has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 9-11, 2012.

 

LREC 2012 in Istanbul

Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

Alyaa Alfalahi, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis attended LREC 2012, (The Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) and BioTxtM 2012 (Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining ) in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012 and presented the following three papers in poster sessions as well as in a short oral presentation. LREC had 1 200 participants and almost 700 accepted posters and oral presentations all of them published in the Proceedings. If you want a short summary of the conference please ask us for the conference report that we have compiled in Swedish.
Except of the conference we saw Hagia Sophia, the Blue mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii), and Dancing Dervishes in the 1001 Column Cistern in this beautiful city.