| 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.
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| II. Recent Publications |
- K. Monu and C. Woo, “Conceptual Modeling in Disaster Planning Using Agent Constructs”.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
(ER’2009, Gramado, Brazil, November 9-12, 2009), Springer, to appear.
- S.N. Singh, and C. Woo, “Investigating Business-IT Alignment through
Multi-Disciplinary Goal Concepts”. Requirements Engineering 14, 3 (July 2009),
Springer, 177-207.
- P. Kruchten, C. Woo, K. Monu, and M. Sotoodeh, “A Conceptual Model of
Disasters Encompassing Multiple Stakeholder Domains”.
International Journal of Emergency Management 5, 1/2 (2008),
Switzerland: Inderscience Publishers, 25-56.
- 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), 525-546.
- 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.
- 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 |
- Associate Editor for
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2009 - present.
- 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.
- Information Technology for Management (BAIT 550)
- Introduction to Management Information Systems (Comm 391)
- Transaction Processing Systems (Comm 335)
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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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