Welcome to the first edition of the Information Systems Institute's Research Newsletter. This Newsletter will be published four times a year (March, June, September and December), and will be published on the ISI research web page. The aim of the Newsletter is to facilitate the exchange of information related to research activities in ISI. Submissions are welcome from staff and research

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ISRC Newsletter - Issue 2: September 2001 The (Re-) Defining Critical Research in Information Systems Workshop, held at Salford on 9-10 July was a great success. Approximately 50 people attended theworkshop from far afield as Germany, the USA and Australia. There were a total of 15 papers presented with a panel of international academics debating 'What is critical about critical IS?'. The Workshop provided the opportunity for researchers to discuss applying critical perspective to information technologies and consider how we can build upon this for the future.Proceedings of the Workshop are available from Donna Bailey. The final seminar series of the ESRC series 'Equal Opportunities On-Line' was held on 13 June at Salford. The topic was gender and health/bio informatics. Speakers included Teresa Waring, University of Newcastle, Sarah Willis, Universityof Manchester, John Rooksby, University of Manchester, Melanie Wilson, UMIST, and Irma van der Ploeg, Erasmus University.Work is underway to construct a website for papers from the seminar series and a special issue with selected papers of the journal ACM Computers and Society is planned for December 2001. Please contact Alison Adam for details. NEW STAFF Matthew Weatherill and James Cunningham have recently been appointed as Research Fellows on Prof. Rezgui's European funded Knowledge Management eCOGNOS Project.Ed Thornton has been awarded an EPSRC studentship to work on Prof. Chadwick's Electronic Prescription Processing project along with Darren Mundy and Ed Ball. PUBLICATIONSJOURNALSLight, B., Holland, C.P. and Wills, K., 2001, 'ERP and Best of Breed: A Comparative Analysis', in Business Process Management Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 216-224. ABSTRACTMcMaster, T., 2001, 'Mapping the Conceptual Domain: A Contribution to the Theory/Practice Debate', in Communications of the AIS, vol. 6., March 2001. ABSTRACTAdam, A. and Richardson, H., 2001, 'Feminist Philosophy and Information Systems', in Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 3:2, pp. 143-154.  BOOK CONTRIBUTIONMcMaster, T., 2001, 'The Illusion of Diffusion in Information Systems Research', in Ardis, M. and Marcolin, B.L. (eds.), Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations, Boston, Kluwer, pp. 67-85. ABSTRACT.CONFERENCESChadwick, D.W., New, J.P., McDowell, D.M. and Mundy, D.P. 2001, 'Providing Secure Access to Confidential Patient Information Detailing Diabetic Condition', in Graham, P., Maheswaran, M. and Eskicioglu, R. (eds.), The International Conference on Internet Page 1 of 5Information System Research Institute23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\IRIS News\Archives\ISRN2.htmABSTRACTAdam, A., 2001, 'Computer Ethics in a Different Voice', in Information and Organization, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 235-261. ABSTRACTComputing 2001, CSREA Press, vol. 1, pp. 535-541. A copy of the paper is available at http://sec.isi.salford.ac.uk/NEW PROJECTS - (since June 2001)Yacine Rezgui has secured another European Framework V - IST project entitled 'VOSTER - Virtual Organizations Cluster'. The project will run for 2.5 years and is funded under the Project Clusters Initiative. The Salford team involves Grahame Cooper and Maria Vakola.Grahame Cooper has been awarded a European project entitled 'SciX - Open, Self-Organizing Repository for Scientific Information Exchange', funded through theIST programme action line 'Next Generation Digital Collections'. The project has a 2 year duration. The Salford team involves Yacine Rezgui.Amit Mitra has successfully obtained a Teaching Company Scheme grant with aManchester based company involved with the promotion of strategic marketing initiatives for a range of companies through different media. The Salford team also involves Chris Procter.The objective of the project is to create an interactive knowledge warehouse for the Company. Such a knowledge warehouse would be used to consolidate existent expertise within the Company for enhancing strategic as well as operationalactivities of the organisation. Eliciting tacit knowledge from involved staff and establishing suitable interactivity with the created artefact are a couple of major challenges that the project addresses in the course of its development and delivery over the duration of the project.COMPLETED PROJECTS (since June 2001)IT Tools and Support for Improved Construction Briefing (CoBrITe)(EPSRC/LINK)Investigators: Prof. Peter Barrett, Prof. Yacine Rezgui and Prof. Grahame CooperThe CoBrITe project argues that the construction industry has yet to exploit the Page 2 of 5Information System Research Institute23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\IRIS News\Archives\ISRN2.htmpotential of ICT systems to assist both clients and design teams during the Briefingphase. This is in contrast to later stage of design and construction where computer-based techniques and systems are commonplace. The overall aim of the CoBrITe project was to improve the briefing process through more efficient and effective use of existing and emerging information technologies that can support client and design teams.Advanced Decision Support for the Construction Design Process (ADS)(EPSRC/IMI)Investigators: Prof. Grahame Cooper and Prof. Yacine RezguiThe ADS project was primarily concerned with recording of intent, dependencies, and change notification in the design process within construction projects. In doingthis it was necessary also to address ownership and responsibility, versioning, and schema evolution. It tackled the challenging problem of managing design information, including eliciting design rationale, without intruding too much on the design process itself. It provided the possibility to link design decisions back to requirements, to gather rationale information for states of the building lifecycle, and to gather knowledge of rationale for projects. WHO'S DOING WHAT?Alison Adam is now book reviews editor for ACM Computers and Society. Those interested in reviewing books or who have books for review should contact her.Tom McMaster chaired 'World Issues' session at BITWorld Conference in Cairo, Egypt, in July 2001. In August, Tom was also Chair of the Working Group at the 24thInformation Systems Research Seminar (IRIS), in Scandinavia.Andrew Basden will be presenting a paper to the ECITE Conference on 'Towards aPhilosophic Understanding of Information Systems Evaluation'. ABSTRACTPOSTGRADUATE RESEARCH NEWSNew Postgraduate StudentsLian Pate, MSc (Supervisor: Tom McMaster): Linda obtained her BSc in BusinessInformation Systems from Salford in 2001.Navinchandra Karsan Patel, PhD (Supervisor: Terrence Fernando): Navinchandra obtained his MSc in Virtual Environments in 2000. His research will focus on virtualenvironment for supporting client-briefing.Lee Anthony Eddowes, PhD (Supervisor: Bob Wood): Lee obtained his MSc inManaging IT from Salford in 1999.Edward Thornton, MPhil (Supervisor: David Chadwick): Ed is a BSc IT graduate. He has been awarded an EPSRC studentship to work on Prof. Chadwick's Electronic Prescription Processing project.Mykhaylo Sahalayen, MPhil (Supervisor: David Chadwick): Mykhaylo will primarilyworking on extensions to Open LDAP.Page 3 of 5Information System Research Institute23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\IRIS News\Archives\ISRN2.htmRESEARCH FELLOWS/ASSISTANTS NEWSSimon Harvey is leaving Salford on 14 September. He's secured a position with Accenture in the South of France.Stefan Boddy has been appointed as Research Fellow on Prof. Rezgui's project -Creating, Sustaining, and Disseminating Knowledge for Sustainable Construction:Tools, Methods and Architectures (C-Sand).UPCOMING EVENTS4th Continuous Reporting and Auditing Conference, 18-19 April 2002 at SalfordDavid Chadwick and his postgraduate student, Robert Onions, will be hosting this two day symposium at Salford. The Conference has always been held at RutgersUniversity, New Jersey, and organised by Dr. Miklos Vasarhelyi. The 4th Conference at Salford will be the first time it has been held in Europe and should attract a more diverse input. To obtain further information:http://www.continuousauditing.org Robert Onions - R.L.Onions@salford.ac.ukDavid Chadwick - D.W.Chadwick@salford.ac.ukMISS Seminar Series - Wednesday, 17 October, at 2pm, ISI Professor Karlheinz Kautz from Copenhagen Business School will be speaking on 'Systems Development in the Age of @nything - Demystifying Some Issues'HCI International 2001, New Orleans, USAThe premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction was held in New Orleans in August. With over 1000 delegates from all around the world it was a large event, requiring 15 parallel streams to fit all the presentations in. Two members of the ISI presented research papers (Terrence Fernando and Janice Whatley), both being received with interest judging by the discussion that followed. Research papers presented varied from designing interfaces, web applications, cognitive ergonomics to virtual reality and agents, indicative of the diverse impact HCI has upon computerimplementations.The proceedings included the 1st International Conference on Universal Access inHuman-Computer Interaction, a new and prolific area of research, showing that support for all users is becoming a priority. Many of the papers were concerned with adaptive interfaces to enable access for particular classes of users, also work towards generic designs capable of supporting a range of disabled users. I would like to hear from anybody currently involved or interested in research in this area. New Orleans was a good choice for a conference venue, with its attractive town centre, interesting sights to visit and music all around. The weather during theconference did make it seem like home from home, as we experienced stormsresulting from tropical storm Barry. On the evening of the conference meal aboard the paddle steamer on the Mississippi there was particularly heavy rain, so delegates had to run under umbrellas to the coach.Article submitted by Janice WhatleyJ.E.Whatley@salford.ac.ukPage 4 of 5Information System Research Institute23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\IRIS News\Archives\ISRN2.htmRESEARCH NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONSThe next issue will be published in December 2001. Deadline for submissions to Donna Bailey is 15 December 2001D.S.Bailey@salford.ac.ukPage 5 of 5Information System Research Institute23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\IRIS News\Archives\ISRN2.htm

Informatics Research Institute (IRIS) September 2001 newsletter

Welcome to the first edition of the Information Systems Institute's Research Newsletter. This Newsletter will be published four times a year (March, June, September and December), and will be published on the ISI research web page. The aim of the Newsletter is to facilitate the exchange of information related to research activities in ISI. Submissions are welcome from staff and researchstudents

ISRC Newsletter - Issue1: June 2001 Welcome to the first edition of the Information Systems Institute's Research Newsletter. This Newsletter will be published four times a year (March, June, September and December), and will be published on the ISI research web page. The aim of the Newsletter is to facilitate the exchange of information related to research activities in ISI. Submissions are welcome from staff and research students.The success of this newsletter relies on your submissions!Don't be shy - inform your colleagues about your new publications, projects, awards, prizes, research, etc. MEET YOUR RESEARCH COMMITTEE The ISI Research Committee deals with the details of a number of areas of School business. It is also the formal channel whereby the views of research students and staff can be expressed and sought. It covers primarily issues that relate to research publishing, research projects, research students and studentships, research seminars and conferences, and the related infrastructure and support.COMMITTEE MEMBERSProf. A.T. Wood-Harper (Chair) - Associate Head ResearchProf. J.R.G. Wood, Associate Dean for ResearchProf. G. Cooper, Head of SchoolDr. Y. Rezgui, Associate Head Funded ProjectsMs. D. Bailey, Research OfficerDr. D.W. Chadwick, ISI academic representative*Dr. D. Howcroft, ISI academic representative*Dr. A. Basden, ISI academic representative*Dr. F. Wilson, ISI academic representative*Mr. I. Wilson, Research Assistants/Fellows Representative*Postgraduate Student Representative (Open)**Elected staff. The term of office of elected members will be one year.The position of postgraduate research student representative on the Committee remains open. If you wish to be considered for this position or would like to nominate a postgraduate research student, please contact Donna Bailey by 15July 2001.The Committee is open to all ISI professors. The dates of upcoming meetings are available on the ISI Calendar. PROMOTIONS Congratulations to Yacine Rezgui and David Chadwick on their promotions to Professor, effective August 2001. RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE 2001 It's been a busy time (understatement of the year!) for some members of ISI with Page 1 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htmpreparations for the RAE submission. Trevor Wood-Harper and Debra Howcroft have been working extremely hard, and not to mention long hours, on the ISI submission. Along with Trevor and Debra a number of staff deserve recognition for their efforts with the submission including David Wastell, Bob Wood, Alison Adam, Francis Wilson and Ruth Aylett.The ISI submitted 23 members to the Library and Information Systems Panel. The University has returned twelve Units of Assessment and submitted its return on 26 April 2001. Thank you all for your patience in returning requested materials for the RAE submission. PUBLICATIONSJOURNALSNevill, N. and Wood-Harper, A.T. 2001, 'Choice of Target Audience for IS Research: Reflections on Discussions with IS Academic Leaders in the UK', Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 5, Article 4. ABSTRACTMcBride, N. and Wood-Harper, A.T., 2001, 'Towards User-Oriented Control of End-User Computing in Large Organizations', in Journal of End-User Computing (forthcoming).Kawalek, P. and Wood-Harper, T., 2001, 'The Finding of Thorns: User Particpation in Enterprise System Implementation', in DataBase (forthcoming).Chadwick, D.W. (In Press), 'Deficiencies in LDAP when used to Support Public Key Infrastructure', in Communications of the ACM.EDITED BOOKGreen, E. and Adam, A. (eds.) 2001, 'Virtual Gender -Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters', Routledge, March 2001. ABSTRACT CONFERENCES Cont'd Bell, F., Howcroft, D. and Light, B., 2001, 'From Vendor to Portal: A Case Study of Internet-Enabled Re-configuration, Proceedings of the 7th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August, Boston, USA.Adam, A., Howcroft, D.A. and Richardson, H., 2001, 'Absent Friends?: The Gender Dimension in IS Research', IFIP 8.2 Conference, July 2001.Adam, A. and Howcroft, D., 2001, 'Critical Information Systems', NUKAIS Seminar, University of Newcastle, 28 March, 2001.Wheeler, S. and Wood-Harper, T., 2001, 'Ethical Information Systems Analysis', in Information Resources Management Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2001.Saravanamuthu, K. and Wood-Harper, A.T., 2001, 'Developing Emancipatory Information Systems', First Conference on Critical Information Systems, Manchester, July 2001.Bennetts, P.D.C. and Wood-Harper, A.T., 2001, 'Churchman and Stories of Information Systems Development', American Conference on IS (AMCIS), August 2001.Bennetts, P.D.C. and Wood-Harper, A.T., 2001, 'Multiple Viewpoints: An Initial Look at Page 2 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htmBOOK CHAPTERAdam, A., 2001, 'Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures', in Barbercheck, M., Cookmeyer, D., Ozturk, H., Wayne, M. and Wyer, M. (eds.), Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies, Routledge, New York and London.CONFERENCESThe following papers have been accepted at one of the top European IS conferences. ECIS 2001 - The 9th European Conference on Information, June 27-29, 2001, Bled, Slovenia. The ISRC will be well represented!Howcroft, D., Richardson, H. and Wilson, M. 2001, '"Now You See It …. Now You Don't" Myths of the Dot.com Market', ECIS Conference, Bled. ABSTRACTWastell, D.G., 2001, 'Barriers to Effective Knowledge Management: Action Research Meets Grounded Theory', ECIS 2001 Conference, Bled. ABSTRACTWastell, D., Kawalek, P. and Willetts, M., 2001, 'Designing Alignment and Improvising Change: Experiences in the Public Sector Using the Sprint Methodology', ECIS 2001 Conference, Bled. ABSTRACTAdam, A. 2001, 'Gender, Emancipation and Critical Information Systems', ECIS 2001 Conference, Bled. ABSTRACTLight, B. 2001, 'A Review of the Issues Associated with Customer Relationship Management Systems', ECIS 2001 Conference, Bled. ABSTRACTBen will also contribute to the panel: ERP is Dead (or is Individual Profiles', American Conference on AI (AMCIS), August 2001.Tom McMaster presented a paper entitled 'The Illusion of Diffusion in Information Systems Research', IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 8.6 International Working Conference on the Diffusion of Software Products and Processeses in Banff, Alberta, Canada, 7-10 April 2001. ABSTRACTAt the Banff business meeting, it was decided that Tom would take responsibility for the Working Group's website and listserve, and edit and produce its twice annual newsletter - an initiative that will help to promote the University of Salford around the world.The next 8.6 International Conference will be held in Sydney in 2002, and either Atlanta or India in 2003.Adam, A., 2001, 'Heroes or Sibyls? Gender and Engineering Ethics', accepted for Special Issue of IEEE Technology and Society on Engineering Ethics.Janice Whatley presented a poster session entitled 'Agent Support for Students Working Online', at the EuroCSCL Conference held in Maastricht in March 2001. ABSTRACT Page 3 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htmit?). Long Live E-Business!: An Exploration of the Future of ERP and its Relationship with E-Business at the ECIS 2001 Conference.Panel Chair: Guy Gable -Queensland University ot Technology, AustraliaPanel members: M. Lynee Markus, City University of Hong Kong, Kenny K.F. Lee, Nanyand Technology University, Graeme Shanks -The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Ben Light, University of Salford. NEW PROJECTS - (from January 2001)Principal Investigator: David ChadwickPERMIS (Privilege and Role Management Infrastructure Standards Validation) funded by the European Commission.Yacine Rezgui has recently secured three research contracts (two funded by the European Commission under the IST programme and one by EPSRC/IMI) in the area of Knowledge Management. These projects totalling a funding of £2.3m in excess involve the key players from research and industry in Europe in the building and construction sector.C-SAND (Creating, Sustaining, and Disseminating Knowledge for Sustainable Construction: Tools, Methods and Architectures) funded under the EPSRC/IMI Programme (The Innovative Manufacturing Initiative Call 9).e-COGNOS (Methodology, tools and architectures for electronic Consistent knowledGe maNagement across prOjects and between enterpriSes in the construction domain - IST-2000-28671).ICCI (Innovation co-ordination, transfer and deployment through networked Co-operation in the Construction Industry).COMPLETED PROJECTS (since January 2001)David Chadwick and Andrew Basden completed an EPSRC project Intelligent Computation of Trust in January 2001.Both David and Andrew presented a seminar on the above project on 5 June 2001.WHO'S DOING WHAT?Alison Adam presented the keynote paper 'Gender/Body/Machine', at Ratio Conference on Philosophy of the Body, Department of Philosophy, at the University of Reading on 28 April 2001.Janice Whatley attended Autonomous Agents 2001 in Montreal, Canada. Please click here to read her article about the Conference.POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH NEWSPage 4 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htmNew Postgraduate Students - (from January 2001) Marie Griffiths, MPhil (Supervisor: Ben Light) Marie is an ISI BSc Business Information Systems graduate. Her research will focus on cultural implications of the implementation of an IT based relationship management system.Wokasha Ben Laguda, PhD (Supervisor: David Wastell) Ben graduated from UMIST with a BSc in Management before completing the MRes course at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the development and implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies in the public sector. His current work involves the study and assessment of recent/ongoing CRM related initiatives at various local authorities in the UK (http:\\www.publiccrm.co.uk). His other interests include Business process re-engineering (specifically tools and modelling methods) and knowledge management.Stephen Leaver, PhD (Supervisor: John Rae) Stephen is an ISI MSc graduate. His research is in organisational learning and knowledge management.Fay Selvan, PhD (Supervisor: John Rae) Fay is an ISI MSc graduate. Her research is in strategic leadership, learning and development.Abuagila Musa, PhD (Supervisor: Bob Wood) Research topic - Online learning systems.Norafida Ithnin, PhD (Supervisor: Trevor Wood-Harper) Research topic -Technological support of CSCW in virtual organization.Othman Ibrahim, PhD (Supervisor: Trevor Wood-Harper) Research topic -Information systems planning in virtual organization. Graduated Students - (from January 2001)Amit Mitra, PhD (Supervisor: Paul Jackson) 'An Interpretation of the Organisational Context of Geographic Information System Use in British Local Government'. ABSTRACT (Amit was funded by the International Development Department of the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham.)Mike Winfield, PhD (Supervisor: Andrew Basden) 'Multiple-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation'. RESEARCH FELLOWS/ASSISTANTS NEWSISI research fellows/assistants attended an informal meeting and lunch on 27 March. This event provided an opportunity for the ISI researchers' to meet one another and discuss their research interests. Research Assistants/Fellows are invited to join the ISI Researchers Group Bulletin Board. Please contact Donna Bailey if you haven't been invited to join. UPCOMING EVENTSPage 5 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htmProf. Grahame Cooper's Inaugural Lecture 'Architecture in the Cyber-City', Thursday, 5 July 2001, at 5pm, Rayleigh Room, Faraday House, followed by a complimentary buffet.ESRC Seminar Series 'Equal Opportunities On-line: The Impact of Gender Relations on the Design and Use of Information and Communications Technologies'.Seminar 7: Bometrics and Health Information: Gender Stories.Alison Adam is hosting this seminar on Wednesday, 13 June 2001, Unipart Lecture Theatre.Click here for list of speakers and agenda.(Re-)Defining Critical Research in Information Systems WorkshopDebra Howcroft, Alison Adam, Helen Richardson and Francis Wilson are in the process of arranging an international workshop to be held at the Information Systems Institute on the 9-10 July 2001.This workshop follows on from the successful Information Systems stream at the 1st Critical Management Conference in Manchester in 1999. The workshop will precede the 2nd Critical Management Conference to be held at the University of Manchester on 11-13 July 2001.The workshop will consist of a mixture of panels, invited speakers and researchers from round the world that are interested in applying critical theory/theories to information technologies.Further information available at http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/cris/RESEARCH AWAY DAYThe ISI Research Away Day was held on Monday, 4 June 2001, at Campanile Manchester Hotel, Salford. Various issues were discussed including RAE2001, RAE2005, and funding opportunites and mechanisms.  RESEARCH NEWLETTER SUBMISSIONSThe next issue will be published in September 2001. Deadline for submissions to Donna Bailey is 30 August 2001D.S.Bailey@salford.ac.uk  Page 6 of 6ISRC Homepage23/02/2005file://K:\LOCALWEB\old_irisweb\ISRI News\Archives\ISRCN1.htm

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