IMPORTANT UPDATE

I have taken up a position with the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland and will be in St. John's, NL from mid-November 2007. Please update your files accordingly.

Joerg Evermann

Faculty of Business Administration
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5
Canada

e-mail: jevermann@mun.ca
http: //www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~jevermann/
phone: +1 709 737 8527
cellular/mobile: +1 709 749 7880
Skype: joerg.evermann

Interests

Research

Systems Analysis
Conceptual Modelling
Enterprise Resource Planning
Business Process and Workflow Management
Database Management Systems
Artificial Intelligence

Teaching

Systems Analysis and Design
Database Management
E-Business Technologies
Business Programming

Previous Academic Positions

Lecturer at The School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington (2003 to 2007)

Education

Ph.D., The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, Management Information Systems, 1999 - 2004 (thesis completed December 2003)
- Thesis: Using Design Languages for Conceptual Modelling: The UML Case (pdf)
- Committee Members: Dr. Yair Wand, Dr. Carson Woo, Dr. Gail Murphy
Diplom Wirt.-Inf., University of Münster, 1992-1998 (German post graduate degree in business computing)
- Thesis: Process oriented development and implementation of an interface system to link decentralized MES with centralized PPC systems

Teaching and Graduate Supervision

(Evaluations and course materials available upon request)

With UBC

Systems Analysis and Design (Commerce 436): 2001, 2002 (summer and fall), 2003

With VUW

Introduction to Multimedia in E-Commerce (ELCM 202): 2003
Business-to-Business E-Commerce (ELCM 301): 2003, 2004
System Analysis (INFO 212): 2004
Modern System Analysis (INFO 222): 2005, 2006, 2007
Internet Computing Databases (ELCM 306): 2004
Internet Development Environments (ELCM 353): 2005, 2006, 2007
Advanced Database Programming (INFO 312): 2004
Research Methods in Information Systems (INFO 403): 2005, 2006, 2007

With MUN

Research Methods for Management Research (BUSI 9901): 2008
Quanitative Methods in Management Research (BUSI 9903): 2008, 2009
Management Science (BUSI 4401): 2008, 2009
Management Information Systems (BUSI 3700): 2008

Graduate Student Supervision

Farhana Alam (Masters, Aspect-Oriented Modeling, June 2008 - ongoing)
Jennifer Fang (Masters, Quality of Ontologies, July 2007 - ongoing)
Mary Tate (PhD, E-Service Quality, since 2005 - ongoing)
Richard Williams (PhD, Enterprise Architecture, Feb 2006 - Dec 2007)
Mark Wilson (PhD, Visual Languages, Feb 2007 - Nov 2007)

Professional Experience

Technical Lead, Joint project of the MIS Division, Faculty of Commerce, UBC and BuildDirect for development of a logistics system for B2B electronic commerce, Aug 2002 - Mar 2003
Management & SAP Consultant, KPMG Consulting GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 1998-1999. Specialization in SAP Base, SAP Financials and SAP Engineering Data Management. SAP BC 400 Course (ABAP/4 Development Workbench)
Systems Analyst, ABB Power Plant Division AG, Mannheim, Germany, 1997-1998
Programmer & Systems Analyst, HÖMA Maschinenbau GmbH, Hörstel, Germany, 1990-1995 (part time)

Publications

Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. Ontology Based Object-Oriented Domain Modeling: Representing Behavior.Journal of Database Management. Vol 20 No 1., pp. 48-77, 2009 (accepted manuscript pdf)
- Invited for presentation at AMCIS 2007
Tate, M., Evermann, J., and Hope, B. Old Theory and New Service Quality: An Exploratory Study of the Nature and Nomological Net of Online Service Quality and Continuing Use using Information Systems Theory. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Christchurch, New Zealand, December, 2008.
Evermann, J. and Fang, J. Evaluating Ontologies: Towards a Cognitive Measure of Quality. Information Systems. Accepted on September 1st, 2008.
- Invited from VORTE 2007 workshop
Evermann, J. A Cognitive Semantics for the Association Construct. Accepted for Requirements Engineering Journal in May 2008. doi:10.1007/s00766-008-0065-5
Evermann J., and Halimi, H., Associations and Mutual Properties - An Experimental Assessment. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS, Toronto, August 2008
Evermann, J., and Mistry, R., System Analysis as Scientific Inquiry. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS, Toronto, August 2008
Tate, M., Evermann, J., Hope, B. and Barnes, S. Stakeholder expectations of service quality in a university web portal. In Oliver, D., Romm Livermore, C., and Sudweeks, F. (eds.) Self-Service in the Internet Age: Expectations and Experiences. Springer Verlag.
Evermann, J. Theories of Meaning in Schema Matching: An Exploratory Study. Information Systems. Published online April 15th, 2008, print forthcoming. (doi:10.1016/j.is.2008.04.001 or accepted manuscript pdf)
Evermann, J. A UML and OWL Description of Bunge's Upper-Level Ontology Model. Software and Systems Modelling, Published online March 5th, 2008, print forthcoming (doi:10.1007/s10270-008-0082-3)
- Files related to this paper are here
Kim, H.M., Sengupta, A. and Evermann, J. MOQ: Web Services Ontologies for QoS and General Quality Evaluations. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies (IJMSO). Vol 2 No 3, 195-200 (doi:10.1504/IJMSO.2007.017612)
Evermann, J. Theories of Meaning in Schema Matching: A Review. Journal of Database Management, Vol 19 No 3, 55-83 (uncorrected proof pdf)
Evermann, J. An Exploratory Study of Database Integration Processes. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 20 No 1, Jan 2008, 99-115. (pdf)

Fang, J. and Evermann, J. Evaluating Ontologies - Towards a Cognitive Measure of Quality. Proceedings of the VORTE Workshop, Annapolis, October 15th, 2007. (pdf)
- Invited for submission to Information Systems special issue
Evermann, J. A Meta-Level Specification and Profile for AspectJ in UML. Journal of Object Technology, Vol 6, No 7, Aug 2007 (pdf)
- Software related to this paper is here.
Evermann, J., Ferreira, J., Haggard, G. Improving Mutual Understanding of Development Artifacts: A Semiotics Based Approach. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, CO, Aug 2007 (pdf)
Evermann, J. Sequence Analysis in Process Tracing. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, CO, Aug 2007 (pdf)
Tate, M., Hope, B., Evermann, J., and Barnes, S. Perceived Online Service Quality: Latent Dimensions and Ontological Implications. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Auckland, NZ, July 2007. (pdf)
Evermann, J. A Meta-Level Specification and Profile for AspectJ in UML. Proceedings of the Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modelling at (AOM) at AOSD 2007. (pdf)
- Software related to this paper is here.
Evermann, J., Hooper, V., Yoong, P. et al. The Discovery Camp: A Talent Fostering Initiative for Developing Research Students. Proceedings of INSITE 2007 (pdf).
- Also published in: Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (IISIT), Volume 4, pp 211-225.
Tate, M., Evermann, J., Hope, B. and Barnes, S. Perceived Service Quality in a University Web Portal: Revising the E-Qual Instrument. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS-40, January 3-6, 2007, Hawaii. (pdf)
- Invited for fast-track review to the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. Ontological Modelling Rules for UML: An Empirical Assessment, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol 46, No 5, Fall 2006, 14-19. (pdf)
Evermann, J. Organizational Paradigms and Organizational Modelling. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BUSITAL) at CAiSE 2006, Luxembourg, June 2006. (pdf)

Evermann, J. The Association Construct in Conceptual Modeling - An Analysis Using the Bunge Ontological Model. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2005, Porto, Portugal, June 2005, 33-47. (pdf)
- Software related to this paper is here
Evermann, J. Towards Natural Language Semantics for the Association Construct. In: Proceedings of the Forum for the 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2005, Porto, Portugal, June 2005, 77-82. (pdf)
Kim, H. and Sengupta, A. and Evermann, J. MOQ: Web Services Ontologies for QoS and General Quality Evaluations. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2005. Regensburg, Germany, May 2005. (pdf)
Evermann, J. Towards a Cognitive Foundation for Knowledge Representation. Information Systems Journal, Vol 15, pp 147-178. (pdf)
Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. Ontology-Based Object-Oriented Business Modelling: Fundamental Concepts. Requirements Engineering Journal, Vol 10, No 2, 2005, 146-160. (pdf)
Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. Ontological Semantics and Formal Syntax. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol 31 No 1, Jan 2005, 21-37 (pdf)
Evermann, J. Thinking Ontologically - Conceptual versus Design Models in UML. In: Rosemann, M. and Green, P. (eds.) Ontologies and Business Analysis. Idea Group Publishing, 2005, 82-104. (pdf)

Evermann, J. The Science of IS Development - Implications for Applications. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Research in systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND). St. John's, Canada, June 12-13, 2004. (pdf)

Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. An ontological examination of object interaction in conceptual modeling. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems WITS'01, New Orleans, December 15-16, 2001, 91-96. (pdf)
Evermann, J. and Wand, Y. Towards ontologically based semantics for UML constructs. In H. Kunii, S. Jajodia, and A. Solvberg, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 27-30, 2001, ER 2001, 354-367 (pdf)

Working paper and Papers Under Review

Multiple group analysis with blockdiagonal matrices
A paper on structural equation modeling that shows how multi-group analysis can be done in software that does not provide native multi-group capabilities.

Service and Other Activities

Tutorial on Covariance Based Structural Equation Modelling (3 hours), presented at ACIS 2008 and at Victoria University of Wellington (December 2008)

Associate editor for ICIS 2007 Conference track on Approaches to Information Systems Development

Program Committee member for Domain Engineering Workshop, 2009
Program Committee member for ICE-B 2008 Conference
Program Committee member for ENASE 2008, 2009 Conference
Program Committee member for QualIT 2007 Conference
Program Committee member for FP-UML 2007, 2008 Workshop
Program Committee member for CAiSE 2007, 2008, 2009 Conference
Program Committee member for KMAP 2005 Conference
Program Committee member for IADIS e-Commerce 2006, 2007, 2008 Conference
Program Committee member for VORTE 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Workshops
Program Committee member for CSSWS 2006 Symposium
Program Committee member for 2007 Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW)
Program Committee member for 2007 Innovations in IT conference

Reviewer for OIR (Online Information Review), 2008
Reviewer for IS (Information Systems), 2008
Reviewer for IST (Information and Software Technology), 2008
Reviewer for ISR (Information Systems Research), 2008
Reviewer for Journal of Applied Ontology, 2007
Reviewer for JAIS (Journal of the AIS), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Reviewer for DKE (Data and Knowledge Engineering), 2005
Reviewer for JCIS (Journal Computer Information Systems), 2005
Reviewer for JDS (Journal of Data Semantics), 2006
Reviewer for ISM (Information Systems Management), 2005
Reviewer for ITM (Informtion Technology and Management), 2006, 2007
Reviewer for JDM (Journal of Database Management), 2006, 2007
Reviewer for CAiSE Conference (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006)
Reviewer for ICIS Conference (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Reviewer for AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS, HICSS, and ER conferences

Invited presentation at National University of Singapore (August 2007): An Exploratory of Study of Database Integration Processes.
Invited presentation at Queensland University of Technology (August 2005): Integrating Philosophical and Semantic Web Ontologies.
Invited presentation at Victoria University of Wellington (December 2008): Developing an Ontology Evaluation Method
Invited presentation at the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference (ASB) (October 2008): From UML Actions to AspectJ

Doctoral Consortium Chair for the MODELS 2011 Conference (to be confirmed)

Advising faculty member for the CAiSE 2006 Doctoral Workshop, Luxembourg.
Advising faculty member for the CAiSE 2005 Doctoral Workshop, Porto, Portugal.
Advising faculty member for the CAiSE 2004 Doctoral Workshop, Riga, Latvia.
Co-organizer of the CAiSE 2004 Doctoral Workshop, Riga, Latvia
Co-organizer of the CAiSE 2003 Doctoral Workshop, Velden, Austria
Student participant of the CAisE 2002 Doctoral Workshop, Toronto, Canada.

Reviewer for the Canadian SSHRC granting agency (2006)
Reviewer for the Canadian NSERC granting agency (2005)
Co-ordinator for the UBC Faculty of Commerce Bureau for E-Business Research (2001)

Memorial University Senate Committee on Educational Technologies, September 2008 - August 2011

Grants

NSERC, $15000.00 p.a., 2008-2012: Contextual Factors in Database Integration

Visa Status

Citizenship: German
New Zealand Permanent Residency
Canadian Permanent Residency

References

Dr. Sid Huff School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand phone: +64 4 463 5819 e-mail: sid.huff@vuw.ac.nz	Dr. James Noble School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand e-mail: kjx@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Dr. Yair Wand The Sauder School of Business The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada phone: +1 604 822 8395 e-mail: yair.wand@ubc.ca	Dr. Carson Woo The Sauder School of Business The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada phone: +1 604 822 8390 e-mail: carson.woo@ubc.ca