Carson Woo

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, 1988

Stanley Kwok Professor of Business
Associate Professor, MIS, Sauder School of Business
Director, Bureau for Research on Applications of Information Technology (BRITE)
Associate Member, Department of Computer Science
Member, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)

E-Mail: carson.woo@ubc.ca
Phone: (604) 822-8390
Fax: (604) 822-0045

 
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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