Relevance in Information Systems Research

Relevance in Information Systems Research: An Empirical Analysis

The importance of instilling relevance for IT executives in IS research has been stressed by a number of scholars for the long term survival and growth of the IS discipline. Though there have been extended deliberations on the subject, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical analysis to examine the relevance of current IS research. In this study, we analyze the relevance of the 388 publis...

Relevance Feedback Information Systems

All the tools and techniques we have detailed so far assume that the user “knows” how to formulate her queries/preferences Although with traditional DB’s and a few attributes this might be a reasonable assumption, when we consider many attributes/features it is not clear how a user might guess the right combination of weights How can one define the 64 weights for a color-based search using the ...

Structuration Theory in Information Systems Research: Relevance and Rigour from a Pluralist Research Approach

This paper reflects on the theoretical aspects of an earlier ontological study. The study was a single case which explored the use of an agricultural decision support system by women cotton growers in the Australian cotton industry and the effect of its use on their farm management roles on family cotton farms. The study was informed through a multi-paradigmatic conceptual framework with struct...

Philosophical foundations and research relevance: issues for information research

Information Retrieval in Current Research Information Systems

[email protected] ABSTRACT In this paper we describe the functional requirements for research information systems and problems which arise in the development of such a system. Here is shown which problems could be solved by using knowledge markup technologies. In this article one DAML + OIL ontology for Research Information System is offered. The already developed ontologies for researc...