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TISRA – Turku Information Systems Research Alliance
Research area
The TISRA research program combines the universities resources of Information Systems Science in Turku to a critical mass of research resources. The research program is focused on several themes of Information Systems Science:
- ICT-Governance including Data and Information Management (Tomi Dahlberg, Jukka Heikkilä, Hannu Salmela, Reima Suomi, Jonna Järveläinen),
- Digital Services Design and implementation (Anna Sell, Anssi Öörni),
- Networked Business and Business Modelling (Harry Bouwman, Shahrokh Nikou, Jukka Heikkilä, Marikka Heikkilä, Hannu Salmela),
- Work Informatics (Jukka Heikkilä, Antti Tuomisto),
- Data analytics, esp. Soft Computing with approximate reasoning, real options, multiple criteria optimisation and logistics optimisation (Markku Heikkilä),
- Healthcare information systems (Reima Suomi, Janne Lahtiranta), and
- Information Systems research methodologies development (all).
Programme leader
Jukka Heikkilä (TY) and Anssi Öörni (ÅA)
Participating TUCS Research Units
External partners
- ERCIS (European Research Center for Information Systems); Reima Suomi
- eBEREA (eBusiness education and Research in Europe and Asia); Jukka Heikkilä
- CIOALS (CIO-Academy Learning Society); Jukka Heikkilä, Hannu Salmela & Tomi Dahlberg
- Technical University of Delft; Harry Bouwman
- University of Trento; Andrea Molinari
Steering group
Chair: Jukka Heikkilä
Harry Bouwman Tomi Dahlberg Hannu Salmela Reima Suomi Gunilla Widén Anssi ÖörniActivities
- 26.10.2017 TISRA seminar at 12:30–14:00
Lecture room B212 Ranganathan(2nd floor) at ASA-building B, Vänrikinkatu 3
There will be two interesting presentations:
Doctoral candidate José Teixeira (TSE, information systems science): Open-coopetition, prospect for a new concept.
Doctoral candidate Farhan Ahmed (ÅA, informaiton studies): The impact of sense of coherence on information sharing in organizations. - Joint M.Sc. Degree Programme on Governance of Digitalization, coordinated by ÅA IAMSR, starting in study year 2017-18
- TISRA Postgrad Seminars Spring 2017
- January 26th 14:00-15:30, Meeting room B129 in the ASA building, ÅA
- Prof. Anssi Öörni: What's the difference between work and fun? Explaining the difference between utilitarian and hedonic IT use
- Dr. Matti Mäntymäki: User experience and engagement in online music streaming
- March 2nd 12:15-13:45, Meeting room YHDISTYS (4th floor) at Turku School of Economics
- Kimmo Tarkkanen: Improving the Design Value of Usability Tests
- Thomas Forss: News Sentiment as an Indicator of Company Risk
- January 26th 14:00-15:30, Meeting room B129 in the ASA building, ÅA
- 2.3.2017 Monthly TISRA seminar at 12:15–13:45
Meeting room YHDISTYS (4th floor) at Turku School of Economics
Two doctoral candidates will make presentations:
Kimmo Tarkkanen: Improving the Design Value of Usability Tests
Thomas Forss: News Sentiment as an Indicator of Company Risk - TISRA Postgrad Seminars Spring 2014
Time: Thursdays 14:15–16:00 in Delft, ICT Building / Fridays 12:30–14:00 in lecture room 35, TSE- Apr 3 - Prof Pirkko Walden – Anna Sell e-Commerce Transition
- Apr 9 - Joint seminar with TSE Marketing [Lr 9, TSE, 14.00-16.30]
- Apr 23 - Ping Wang [Research proposal]
- Apr 24 - Jakub Gasior Parallel Machines Scheduling
- May 8 - Robert Fullér Fuzzy Optimisation; Harry Bouwman Advances in Business Models
- May 15 – Kai Kimppa, Ville Harkke
- May 20 – TISRA Spring Final Seminar, Prof Jups Heikkilä
- 13.12.2013 A seminar at the Naantali Spa
- 17.1.–23.5.2013 TISRA Postgrad Seminars Spring 2013
Time: Thursdays 14:15–16:00 in Delft, ICT Building / Fridays 12:30–14:00 in lecture room 35, TSE- Jan 17 – Planning of spring seminar series
- Jan 25 - Abayomi Baiyere [Lecture room 35]
- Jan 31- José Teixeira (open source ecosystem)/ Nokia-Microsoft mobile ecosystem
- Feb 7- Eyal Eshet/ Tingting Lin
- Feb 15 - Dr. Chunhui Tan [Visiting postdoc from China; lecture room 35]
- Feb 21- Harry Bouwman (Theory building)
- Feb 28- Jozsef Mezei (Theory building - Analytics)
- Mar 7- Eija Karsten (Theory building - Behaviouristic)
- Mar 14 - Harry Bouwman (Theory building)
- Mar 22 - Dr. Fang Xu [Visiting post doc from China; lecture room 35]
- Apr 4 - Xiaolu Wang/ Peter Sarlin
- Apr 11- Guopeng Yu/ Xiaoyu Xu
- Apr 18 – TSE speaker / Sonja Leskinen
- Apr 19 - Anne-Marie Tuikka [Lecture room 35]
- Apr 25- Nazrul Islam/ Nisansala Vidanapathirana
- May 16- Robin Wikström/ Henrik Nyman
- May 23 – Archipelago seminar with Sami Hyrynsalmi and Dr Hai Nguyen, postdoc researcher from University of Eastern Finland
- Aug 30 – José Teixeira
- Sept 12 – Pirkko Walden
- Sept 19 – Christer Carlsson
- Sept 27 – Sami Hyrynsalmi [TSE, mobile ecosystems]
- Oct 3 – Shahrokh Nikou, Jozsef Mezei, Peter Sarlin [Methodology issues]
- Oct 10 – Hannu Salmela
- Oct 17 – Methods Bazaar [Nyman, Bayere (QR, m-cases), Lin (SNA)]
- Oct 25 – Farooq Mubarak [TSE]
- Oct 31 – Methods Bazaar [Sjöblom (Design Sci), Wang]
- Nov 6 – Methods Bazaar [Sarlin, Nikou]
- Nov 14 – Methods Bazaar [Niemimaa (Ethnography), Sieviläinen]
- Nov 21 – Methods Bazaar [Guo, Xu (Cross-sectional survey)]
- Nov 29 – Neeraj Sachdeva [TSE, health-care systems]
- Dec 5 – Methods Bazaar [Vahtera, Yu]
- Dec 13 – X-mas seminar
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