| I. Research Interests |
- Dr. Woo’s current research focus is on studying how to effectively support change and evolution of information systems from the business and organization perspective. Business change is becoming more frequent due to competition, deregulation and globalization. Rigid and inflexible information systems are obstacles to effective organization and business change. In order to develop flexible and adaptable information systems, Dr. Woo experiments with the effectiveness of incorporating and utilizing various contextual information in information systems architecture. Contextual information, in this case, includes commonly used concepts in intelligent and multi-agents systems such as goals, beliefs, and intentions; organization concepts such as organization structures, roles, and responsibilities; and business concepts such as mission, market, and regulations. The challenges are how to acquire, represent, and take advantage of this knowledge to effectively enable business change. The output of the research includes methodologies and computer-based tools for developing information systems.
- Dr. Woo is also interested in applying this research work to domains such as crisis response and management.
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| II. Recent Publications |
- C. Woo, “The Role of Conceptual Modeling in Managing and Changing the Business”. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’2011, Brussels, Belgium, Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2011), Springer, 1-12.
- S. Singh, F. Sun, and C. Woo, “Designing UML Diagrams Using Goal-Based Concepts”. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems– WITS’2009 (Phoenix, Arizona, December 14-15, 2009), 25-30.
- 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, 374-386.
- 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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