| I. Research Interests |
- Dr. Woo's current research focus is on studying how to
effectively support the change and evolution of information systems from
the business and organizational perspective. Business changes are becoming
more frequent due to competition, deregulation, globalization, and other
factors facing them. Rigid and inflexible information systems are obstacles
to effective organizational and business changes. In order to develop
flexible and adaptable information systems, he experiment the effectiveness
of incorporating and utilizing various contextual information in the
information systems architecture. Contextual information, in this case,
includes commonly use concepts in Intelligent and multi-agents systems such
as goals, beliefs, and intentions, organizational concepts such as
organizational structures, roles, and responsibilities, and business
concepts such as mission, market, and regulations. The challenges are how
to acquire, represent, and take advantage of these knowledge to effectively
enable the business changes. The output of the research includes
methodologies and computer-based tools for developing information
systems.
- Dr. Woo is also interested in applying the above research work to
domains such as crisis response and management, and smart home environments.
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| II. Recent Publications |
- O. Arazy, and C. Woo, “Enhancing Information Retrieval through
Statistical Natural Language Processing: A Study of Collocation
Indexing”. Management Information Systems Quarterly 31, 3
(September 2007).
- P. Kruchten, C. Woo, K. Monu, and M. Sotoodeh, “A Human-Centered
Conceptual Model of Disasters Affecting Critical Infrastructures”.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information
Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
(Delft, Netherlands, May 13-16, 2007), to appear.
- K. Monu, Y. Wand, and C. Woo, “Intelligent Agents as a Modelling
Paradigm”.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS’2005, Las Vegas, December 12-14, 2005), 167-179.
- S.N. Singh and C. Woo, “Exploring the Acquisition and Specification
of Business Goals in Requirements Engineering”.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Requirements Engineering
for Business Need and IT Alignment (REBNITA’2005, Paris,
August 29-30, 2005), Australia: University of New South Wales Press
(ISBN 0 7334 2276 4), 153-162.
- O. Arazy and C. Woo, “Textual Information Access: Enhancing
the Cluster-Based Retrieval Model”.
Proceedings of the Thirteen Workshop on Information Technologies
and Systems (WITS’03, Seattle, December 13-14, 2003),
177-182.
- H. Guo and C. Woo, “A Goal Oriented and Decentrally
Controlled Workflow Model for Facilitating Exception
Handling”.
Proceedings of
the Twelve Workshop on Information
Technologies and Systems (WITS’02,
Barcelona, Spain, December 14-15,
2002), 133-138.
- O. Arazy and C. Woo, “Analysis and Design
of Agent-Oriented Information Systems”,
The Knowledge Engineering Review 17, 3 (September 2002),
Cambridge University Press, 215-260.
- J. Tillquist, J. King, and C. Woo, “A
Representational Scheme for Analyzing
Information Technology and Organizational
Dependency”, Management Information
Systems Quarterly 26, 2 (June 2002),
91-118.
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| III. Membership on Editorial Boards |
- Area Editor for
Organizational Issues, Requirements
Engineering Journal, Springer, 2000 - present.
- Member of Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Intelligent Information
Technologies, 2004 - present.
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| IV. Teaching |
Dr.Woo mainly teaches the follwing courses.
- Introduction to Management Information Systems (Comm 391)
- Transaction Processing Systems (Comm 335)
- Information Systems Analysis and
Design (Comm 436, BAIT 506)
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| V. Offices Held |
- President (elected), Workshop on Information Technology and
Systems (WITS), Inc. (incorporated as a non-profit organization
in 1999; formally the WITS steering committee): 2004 - 2006;
Vice-President and Secretary (elected): 1998 - 2000;
Director: 1998 - 2009.
- Advisory Committee for the Computer
Systems Technology (CST) programs,
British Columbia Institute of Technology
(BCIT), 2000 - present.
- Chairperson (elected): Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) Special
Interest Group on Office Information
Systems (SIGOIS), July 1991 -- June 1995.
Interim Vice-Chairperson (appointed): ACM
SIGOIS, May 1990 -- June 1991. Past Chair:
ACM SIGGROUP (formally SIGOIS), July 1995
- June 1999. Nomination committee chair:
1997 ACM SIGGROUP (formally SIGOIS)
officers election.
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