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Research: Publications

I list my papers below by research stream. Within each section, I list them from most to least recent. Where papers are relevant for multiple streams, I list them in each stream.

Please feel free to email me if you would like a copy of any of them.


Publications from Research Stream 1: System Usage

Journal Papers Published

1. Burton-Jones, A. "Minimizing Method Bias through Programmatic Research," MIS Quarterly, (33:3) Sept 2009, pp. 445-471.

2. Burton-Jones, A. and Gallivan, M.J. "Towards a Deeper Understanding of System Usage in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective," MIS Quarterly (31:4) Dec 2007, pp. 657-679. Awarded the MISQ Best Paper Award, 2007.

3. Straub, D.W. and Burton-Jones, A. “Veni, Vidi, Vici: Breaking the TAM Logjam,” Journal of the Association of Information Systems (8:4) April 2007, pp. 223-229. Invited paper – editorially reviewed.

4. Burton-Jones, A. and Straub, D.W. "Reconceptualizing System Usage: An Approach and Empirical Test," Information Systems Research (17:3) 2006, pp. 228-246.

5. Burton-Jones, A. and Hubona, G.S. "The Mediation of External Variables in the Technology Acceptance Model," Information and Management, (43) 2006, pp. 706-717. (This is a replication of Burton-Jones and Hubona 2005).

6. 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.

Submissions Under Review

1. Burton-Jones, A., and Grange, C. "Using Information Systems Effectively: A Representational Perspective," being prepared for second round review Information Systems Research

Published Conference Papers

1. 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.

2. 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.

Papers Under Development

1. Burton-Jones, A. and Straub, D.W. "A Multilevel Investigation of the Relationship between System Usage and Task Performance,” received invitation to resubmit at MIS Quarterly, to resubmit to an A journal as a new paper.

2. Burton-Jones, A. and Straub, D.W. "A Field Study of System Usage and Individual Outcomes."

3. Burton-Jones, A., and Grange, C. "Effective Use: What we Know and Don't Know"

Ph.D. Dissertation

Burton-Jones, A. "New Perspectives on the System Usage Construct," 2005 (Dissertation Chair: Detmar W. Straub)


Publications from Research Stream 2: Systems Analysis and Design

Journal Papers Accepted

1. Bera, P., Burton-Jones, A., and Wand, Y. "Guidelines for Designing Visual Ontologies to Support Knowledge Identification," conditional accept, MIS Quarterly.

1. Burton-Jones, A., Wand, Y., and Weber, R. “Guidelines for the Empirical Evaluation of Conceptual Modeling Grammars,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (10:6) June 2009, pp. 495-532.

2. Burton-Jones, A., and Meso, P. “The Effects of Decomposition Quality and Multiple Forms of Information on Novices’ Understanding of a Domain from a Conceptual Model,” Journal of the Association of Information Systems (9:12), Dec 2008, pp. 748-802. (This is an extension of our ISR paper, Burton-Jones and Meso 2006)

3. Storey, V.C., Burton-Jones, A., Sugumaran, V., and Purao, S. "CONQUER: A Methodology for Context-Aware Query Processing on the World-Wide-Web," Information Systems Research (19:1), March 2008 pp. 3-25.

4. Burton-Jones, A. and Meso, P.M. “Conceptualizing Systems for Understanding: An Empirical Test of Decomposition Principles in Object-oriented Analysis,” Information Systems Research, (17:1), 2006, pp 38-60. See also our extension of this paper above.

5. 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.

Submissions Under Review

Coming soon!

Published Conference Papers

1. Burton-Jones, A., Wand, Y., and Weber, R. “Informational Equivalence, Computational Equivalence, and the Evaluation of Conceptual Modelling,” in Proceedings of the Annual Workshop of the AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (SIG SAND), D. Batra (ed.), Tulsa, OK, May 12-13, 2007, pp. 35-42.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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., 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

Papers Under Development

1. Bera, P., Burton-Jones, A., and Wand, Y. “Empirical Studies of Roles in Conceptual Modelling,” Preparing for journal submission.

2. Bera, P., Burton-Jones, A., and Wand, Y. “Empirical Studies of Domain Knowledge in Conceptual Modelling,” Preparing for journal submission.

Honors Thesis

Burton-Jones, A. "Understanding Relationships with Attributes in Entity-Relationship Diagrams." (Thesis Supervisor: Ron Weber).


Publications from Research Stream 3: Methodological and Meta-theoretical Issues

Journal Papers Published

1. Burton-Jones, A. "Minimizing Method Bias through Programmatic Research," MIS Quarterly, (33:3) Sept 2009, pp. 445-471. [Also listed above in Stream 1]

2. Burton-Jones, A., Wand, Y., and Weber, R. “Guidelines for the Empirical Evaluation of Conceptual Modeling Grammars,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (10:6) June 2009, pp. 495-532. [Also listed above in Stream 2]

Submissions Under Review

1. Burton-Jones, A., McLean, E.R., and Monod. E. "On Approaches to Building Theories: Process, Variance, and Systems," under first round review MIS Quarterly.

2. Burton-Jones, A. and Lee, A.S. "Hermeneutic Guidelines for Measurement," under second round review MIS Quarterly.

Published Conference Papers

1. 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.

2. Burton-Jones, A. and Lee, A.S. "Thinking about Measures and Measurement," accepted to HICSS 2011.

Papers Under Development

Coming soon!