
A new
group on research methodology has been started by Danny Brash. The first posts address the role of theories in information systems research, the differences between behavioural…
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Added by Paul Johannesson on April 28, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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Research on software lifecycle process models has not been well balanced so far. Most of the attention has been paid to software development and evolution. Less focus has been put on software maintenance. No research been made on software retirement whatsoever.
Retirement is the disposal process whose aim is to end the existence of a software system. It consists of the actual removal of a software system from a regular usage, migration of its still relevant parts to some other system(s) and the…
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Added by Mira Kajko-Mattsson on April 28, 2009 at 9:11am —
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Today the conference on Business Information Systems started in Poznan
. The main themes are ontologies, process analysis and modeling as well as enterprise systems and service oriented architecture. I have never been in Poland before and so far it has been av very pleasant experience with good food and chestnut trees in full bloom. I am here together with Johan Magnusson and Håkan Enquist from Gothenburg Business School and Bo Oscarsson and And…
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Added by Gustaf Juell-Skielse on April 27, 2009 at 5:17pm —
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PoEM 2009 is organized by Syslab and is an exellent opportunity for DSV's researchers to publish. See Call For Papers on
http://poem.dsv.su.se/
Proceedings by Springer LNBIP.
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Added by Janis Stirna on April 27, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Syftet med planeringsprojektet med titeln Avidentifierad PatientKorpus (APK) är att tillgängliggöra en stor databas med över en miljon patientjournaler från Stockholm från åren 2006, 2007 och 2008 från över 2 000 kliniker från Stockholms läns landsting. Patientjournalerna innehåller både strukturerade data såsom kön, ålder, besökstider, diagnoskoder och läkemedel för patienterna men också löpande fritext, vilket är den största delen av journalen. Journalerna är skrivna på svenska av klinisk pers…
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Added by Hercules Dalianis on April 27, 2009 at 9:00am —
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Talk by
Amarin Deemagarn, Sign Language processing and Intelligent Multimedia system group,
Department of Computer Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand.
1. Speech Interface for Querying Tourism Information
2. Assistive software for hearing disability people (The E-Leaning System for Learning Thai Sign Language)
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Added by Hercules Dalianis on April 20, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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On April 1, 2009 I have submitted together with Georg Hodosi and Ali Yakhlef from School of Business at Stockholm University a project proposal to Swedish Research Council having the title: “A methodology for assessing the risk exposure to support IT outsourcing decisions”. As we know the decision process for companies to outsource information technology (IT) or not is a substantial business change and in many cases the competence to take such decisions is limited and has major consequences for…
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Added by Lazar Rusu on April 17, 2009 at 12:00am —
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The paper
Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike written by Bart Jongejan, CST University of Copenhagen and Hercules Dalianis was accepted to
ACL-IJCNLP 2009,Singapore. Out of 571 valid submissions only 121 were accepted, which gives an acceptance rate of 21%.
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Added by Hercules Dalianis on April 16, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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Today I submitted a project proposal to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) with the title "VESPTEC - Vector space representations of textual content". Collaborating with me on this proposal are Magnus Rosell and Viggo Kann at KTH CSC as well as Jussi Karlgren at SICS and Hercules Dalianis here at DSV.
Abstract:
Since the 1960s vector space models have been used extensively for representation of semantics, especially in information-retrieval systems such as Google. These vecto…
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Added by Martin Hassel on April 16, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Monica Winge from Vinnova talked today about challenges and opportunities in e-health. One of the main challenges in today's health care is to realise patient centered work processes. This is a complex task as many different care providers need to cooperate. IT systems and services…
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Added by Paul Johannesson on April 15, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Today, Paul, Birger, Martin and I submitted a project application to the Swedish Research Council.
Abstract:
Software support for well structured business processes is today provided through workflow technology
and process management tools. Tailored to support well structured processes, these tools do not provide
adequate support for loosely structured work activities such as knowledge intensive processes. This type of work
is heavily reliant on professional knowledge, deals with large amounts…
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Added by petiawohed on April 15, 2009 at 4:17pm —
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The paper
Developing a standard for de-identifying electronic patient records written in Swedish: precision, recall and F-measure in a manual and computerized annotation trial, which I've written together with Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel (both here at DSV) and Gunnar H Nilsson (at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Center for Family Medicine, Stockholm) has been accepted to the International Journal of Medical Informatics special issue on Mining of Clinical an…
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Added by Sumithra Velupillai on April 9, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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As a member of the technical team representing the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Today, I had the opportunity to present the outcome of the work done within the REVVA 2 consortium. Under the auspices of the Simu
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Added by Cωνσtantίnoς Giannoulis on April 8, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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Staffan Qvist at
Mendix Sweden gave a presentation on Mendix for universities. Mendix delivers a powerful, model-driven application platform providing tools and architecture to rapidly design, build, test, integrate, deploy, manage and optim…
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Added by Paul Johannesson on April 3, 2009 at 3:41pm —
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A paper called "Improving E-Government through Benefit Analysis and Value Modeling" was accepted by the IEEE
Compsac 2009. It is written by me and Erik Perjons. The aim is to develop a modelling technique that includes both the top down approach and overview given by value modeling with the bottom up and participatory model of "Peng". Peng is extensively used within public administration to identify and value benefits of IT investments. We believe that the co…
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Added by Gustaf Juell-Skielse on April 1, 2009 at 12:54pm —
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