PRIMARY TEACHING/RESEARCH INTEREST
1. Organizational Impacts
2. Systems Analysis and Design
SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Improving conceptualizations and measures of
system usage
2. Understanding the link between system usage
and its consequences
3. Using ontologies to improve users' understanding
and use of systems
SPECIFIC TEACHING INTERESTS
1. Management of Information Systems
2. Systems Analysis and Design
3. Data Management
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Business Administration
- MIS), August 2005
Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: New Perspectives on
the System Usage Construct (Short abstract)
(Final Dissertation)
Master of Information Systems, 1998
The University of Queensland, Australia
Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honors),
1998
The University of Queensland, Australia
WORK EXPERIENCE
Summer 1996, Associate, Coopers and Lybrand, Brisbane, Australia
January, 1997 - December, 1998, Tutorial Assistant, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, Australia
January 1999 - July 2001, Consultant and Senior Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Brisbane, Australia
August 2001 - May 2003, Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Peter Meso and Dr. Jeff Hubona, Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University
May 2003 - July 2005, Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Detmar Straub, Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Queensland (1997-2000), 8 Semesters
CO362: Systems Analysis and Design, 2 Semesters
CO334: Auditing and Public Practice, 4 Semesters
CO869: Introduction to Electronic Commerce, 2 Semesters
Georgia State University (2002-2004), 4 Semesters
CIS2010: Introduction to Computer-based Information Systems, 3 Semesters
CIS3300, Object-Oriented Systems Analysis, 1 Semester
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. Burton-Jones, A. and Hubona, G.S. "Individual Differences and Usage Behavior: Revisiting a Technology Acceptance Model Assumption," The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, (36:2) 2005, pp. 58-77.
2. Burton-Jones, A., Storey, V.C., and Sugumaran, V., and Ahluwalia, P. "A Semiotic Metrics Suite for Assessing the Quality of Ontologies," Data and Knowledge Engineering, (55:1) 2005, pp. 84-102.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
1. Burton-Jones, A., and Weber, R. "Understanding Relationships with Attributes in Entity-Relationship Diagrams," in Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), P. De and J. I. DeGross (eds.), Charlotte, NC, 1999, pp. 214-228.
2. Burton-Jones, A., and Meso, P. "How Good are these UML Diagrams? An Empirical Test of the Wand and Weber Good Decomposition Model," in Proceedings of the Twenty-third International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), L. Applegate, R. Galliers and J. I. DeGross (eds.), Barcelona, Spain, 2002, pp. 101-114, Awarded Best Research Paper, ICIS 2002.
3. Burton-Jones, A., Purao, S., and Storey, V.C. "Context-Aware Query Processing on the Semantic Web," in Proceedings of the Twenty-third International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), L. Applegate, R. Galliers and J. I. DeGross (eds.), Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 16-19, 2002, pp. 195-208.
4. Hubona, G.S., and Burton-Jones, A. "Modeling the User Acceptance of E-Mail," in Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS),, 2003.
5. Burton-Jones, A., Storey, V.C., Sugumaran, V., and Ahluwalia, P. "Assessing the Effectiveness of the DAML Ontologies for the Semantic Web," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), A. Düsterhöft and B. Thalheim (eds.), Burg (Spreewald), Germany, 2003, pp. 56-69.
6. Burton-Jones, A. and R. Weber, "Properties Do Not Have Properties: Investigating a Questionable Conceptual Modeling Practice," in Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, D. Batra, J. Parsons, and V. Ramesh (eds.), 2003, 14 pp.
7. Burton-Jones, A., Storey, V.C., Sugumaran, V., and Purao, S. "A Heuristic-based Methodology for Semantic Augmentation of User Queries on the Web," in Proceedings of the Twenty-second International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), I.-Y Song, S.W. Liddle, T.W Ling, and P. Scheuermann (eds.), Chicago, Illinois, October 13-16, 2003, pp. 476-489.
8. Burton-Jones, A., Straub, D.W. "Minimizing Method Variance in Measures of System Usage," in Proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS), R. Papp (ed.), Savannah, Georgia, 2004, pp. 336-342.
9. Storey, V.C., Sugumaran, V., and Burton-Jones, A., "The Role of User Profiles in Context-Aware Query Processing for the Semantic Web," in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), F. Meziane and E. Métais (eds.), Salford, UK, June 23-25, 2004, pp. 51-63.
JOURNAL PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
1. Burton-Jones, A. and Gallivan, M.J. "Towards a Deeper Understanding of System Usage in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective," under third round review, MIS Quarterly.
2. Burton-Jones, A. and Meso, P.M. "Conceptualizing Systems for Understanding: An Empirical Test of Decomposition Principles in Object Oriented Analysis ," under third round review, Information Systems Research (ISR).
3. Storey, V.C., Burton-Jones, A., Sugumaran, V., and Purao, S. " Making the Web More Semantic: A Methodology for Context-Aware Query Processing," under second round review Information Systems Research (ISR).
4. Burton-Jones, A. and Hubona, G.S. "The Mediation of External Variables in the Technology Acceptance Model," under second round review, Information and Management.
5. Burton-Jones, A., McLean, E.R., and Monod. E. "In Pursuit of MIS Theories: Process, Variance, and Systems," to be submitted for second round review, MIS Quarterly.
6. Burton-Jones, A. and Straub, D.W. "Reconceptualizing System Usage," under first round review, Information Systems Research.
SPECIAL AWARDS and HONORS
1. Best Research Paper Award, ICIS, Barcelona, 2002
2. Accepted to the ICIS Doctoral Consortium, December 2004
3. Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, Georgia State University, 2002-2003
4. Thomas Brown and Son's Memorial Thesis Prize for best Honours Thesis, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, 1998
5. Dean's List, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, 1997-1998
6. Butterworths Book Prize, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, 1997
7. Shell Prize in Accounting, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, 1997
SERVICE
Associate Editor/Program Committee Member for:
International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS) 2005 (Philosophy and Research Methods Track)
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB) 2006
Reviewer for:
Journals:
Management Science
MIS Quarterly
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Journal
Requirements Engineering Journal
Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Information Technology Management
Journal of Information Technology
The Database for Advances in Information Systems
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Journal of Database Management
Conferences:
International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS)
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS)
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Diffusion Interest Group in Information Technology (DIGIT)
Books:
Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS) Monograph Series (Zwass, V., Ed.)