Recent and On-Going Projects

Updated on April 10, 2008

A multidimensional and visual exploration approach to project portfolio management

Description: Mining project information for decision support in project portfolio management. This is my dissertation topic.
Other members: Vijay Vaishnavi (advisor), Stacie Petter, Dan Robey, William Robinson, Art Vandenberg
Status: 06/2006 - Topic analysis; data confirmation.
02/2007 - Began case study at IS&T
04/2007 - Accepted to AMCIS 2007 Doctoral Consortium
01/2008 - Got the GSU dissertation grant
02/2008 - Proposal defense
05/2008 - Short paper presented at DESRIST 2008

Web engineering overview

Description: A review of the web engineering field.
Other members: None
Status: 07/2005 - First version overview completed for a course
05/2006 - 2nd version, submitted to the Encyclopedia of Virtual Organizations
  02/2007 - Conditionally accepted to the Encyclopedia of Virtual Organizations
12/2007 - Scheduled to be published in February 2008

Trusted Query Network

Description: This is from CIS IT risk management initiative; aim to provide anonymous information sharing.
Website: tqn.cis.gsu.edu
Other members: Richard Baskerville, Detmar Straub, Vijay Vaishnavi, Art Vandenberg, Martin Grace, Carl Stucke, Robert Sainsbury, Tony Vance ...
 Status: 03/2006 - University Team Grant funded
08/2006 - Filed provisional patent application
12/2006 - Paper presented and prototype demonstrated in WITS 2006 (Milwaukee, WI)
08/2007 - Filed patent application

Risk checklist

Description: To empirically test risk checklist's impact on project management.
Other members: Mark Keil, Lars Mathiassen, Lei Li
Status: 01/2006 - Accepted to HICSS 2006
07/2007 - Accepted by the Journal of Systems and Software

Independent web navigation

Description: A model to provide consistency, adaptivity and other rich functionalities to assist web navigation. The core parts are integrated navigation panel and structured navigational sitemap.
Other members: None
Status: 12/2004 - Initial prototype and paper finished
12/2006 - Prototype demonstrated in WITS 2006