SYSLAB Research Strategy

The 13th of January, the IT for Health group at DSV went for a three day HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Apart from Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Sumithra Velupillai, Elin Carlsson, Helen Allvin and me from DSV, there were participants with a background in medical
informatics, language technology and nursing science from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. The meeting consisted of seminars on SNOMED CT and on Machine Learning and Clinical Text and of an excursion… Continue

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I am in the process of editing a book entitled "E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage" to be published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) scheduled for release in 2011. If you have ideas for a book chapter in this area, I would very much like you to contribute to the book. Or, perhaps you know someone that could be interested, who can be invited to send a chapter proposal. Call for chapters is available at… Continue

Me and my supervisor Hercules Dalianis have tranformed my thesis into a paper that has been accepted for the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). The title is:
"Influence of Module Order for Rule Based De-identification of Person Names in Electronic Patient Records Written in Swedish"

We will participate in a poster session and the conference will take place in Malta from the 19th to the 21st of May 2010.

A paper written together with Mturi Elias and Paul Johannesson, is accepted for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS'10), Berlin, Germany. Acceptance rate of the conference is 29% and the paper will be published in Springer LNBIP.
The paper is

- Requirements for a Business Process Model Reposit… Continue

Göran Goldkuhl is guest professor since 1 Jan 2010. From Görans's profile:

I am guest professor (10%) in information systems since Jan 1 2010. This is actually a comeback to both DSV and SYSLAB. I was employed at DSV 1973-1982. I got my PhD 1980 on information models. Since I left DSV… Continue

The first and second conferences on the history of Nordic computing, organized in Trondheim (2003) and Turku (2007) respectively, were very successful and acquired a great deal of interest from information and communication technology (ICT) professionals and academics as well as from historians of technology. Therefore, these conferences will now be followed by a third one, which will take place in Stockholm, October 2010.

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Recently, I started working on Data Warehousing in collaboration with Daniel Fasel from Information Systems Research Group, University of Freiburg, Switzerland.
Our paper is accepted at 17th ECBS 2010, to be held at… Continue

Paul and myself attended the 4th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2009) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Very interesting and rewarding.

More info about it can be found at http://vmbo2009.blogs.dsv.su.se (yes, the web site is hosted by DSV).

In November, I was on a research trip in the U.S., where I participated in three conferences (the AAAI Fall Symposium Virtual Healthcare Interaction (VHI) (together with Hercules Dalianis), November 5-7, Arlington, Virginia, the Third i2b2 Shared Task and Workshop, November 13, San Francisco, and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November 14-18, San Francisco). I also visited three departments at different universities, where I gave a seminar describing the work a… Continue

A new milestone in the ÖST project is reached. The prototyping of the emergency phone service in YAWL is now completed.

The work with the prototype was mainly carried out during October-November and David Truffet's visit at DSV.

The prototype is developed in YAWL. It demonstrates how a workflow… Continue

Workshop proposal Louhi 10 accepted at NAACL HLT 2010 in downtown Los Angeles. June, 1-6, 2010.

Call for papers

It was a wonderful nice memorable experience having a PhD disputation, which one’s usually get once in a lifetime. I never thought the process would be a smooth, sometimes rough transition from a beginning node to an end node. After five and half years of research work taking courses, discussion with college researchers, writing papers, editing, submitting papers, acceptance for publications, working on peer reviewers comments. The travelling to numbers of conferences different parts of the worl… Continue

Yesterday, on December 3, we had a lunch seminar on "E-health communities" at SYSLAB. I gave my view of the area and related to some of my research findings.

The seminar focused on e-health communities for people who suffer from established bad (unhealthy) habits, who try to lose weight or quit smoking. These communities aim at helping people change habits, an… Continue

A paper was presented at the 2nd IFIP Working Conference on Practices of Enterprise Modeling, 2009 (PoEM'09) held in Stockholm from November 18th - 19th, 2009. The paper published in Springer LNBIP was written together with Jelena Zdravkovic and can be downloaded from here.

Khurram Shahzad, Jelena Zdravkovic. A Goal-oriented Approach for Business Process Improvement Using Process Warehouse Data. Proceedings of t… Continue

The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is considered the most prestigious Information Systems conference in Europe. Therefore we are very happy that our paper “Critical Success Factors for Effective IT Governance in the Public Sector Organizations in a Developing Country. The Case of Tanzania" having as authors Edephonce Nfuka and Lazar Rusu has been accepted for publication and presentation at ECIS 2010 in Pretoria, South Africa. A short abstract of the paper is included below. F… Continue

On November 18th - 19th, 2009, Khurram, Mturi and Paul participated in the 2nd IFIP WG8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM09) which was held at DSV. On 19th Mturi presented the paper on “Towards Cross Language Process Model Reuse – A Language Independent Representation of Process Models”. In this paper we proposed a Generic Data Model for storing and sharing business process models between different modeling languages. Here you will find the presentation.… Continue

Last Friday, November 27th, 2009, DSV's Director of Postgraduate Studies, Anne Håkansson, and the DSV PhD Student Board (phds.dsv.su.se), hosted the 1st DSV-PhD Workshop on Computer and Systems Sciences.

The main objective was to bring together all PhD students wi… Continue

Today the NESSI National Platforms had a meeting to further develop their cooperation. Europe will in the coming years face a multitude of challenges caused by profound changes in social attitudes, economic conditions, global relationships, and the business environment. The overall goal of the NESSI National Platforms is to promote the development and appli… Continue

Last week we organized the 2nd IFIP WG8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling -- PoEM. 54 participats from all over the world attend the two day conference program (available here).

Proceedings: The Practice of Enterprise Modeling, Second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference,… Continue

On November 23, 2009 I have done a presentation regarding "Trends and Challenges in Strategic Management of IT" for my docent lecture. The abstract of my presentation including the slides and a picture from my docent lecture are included below.

Abstract:
Today in many organizations information technology (IT) is playing a strategic role and has become more important than it was before for the business strategy. In this context is extremely important the way how the IT leaders can improve… Continue