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Brief CV: Andreas L. Opdahl

Current Position: Professor

Home page: http://www.uib.no/People/sinoa

Academic Background

Academic Degrees:

  • Ph.D. (dr.ing.) (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, 1992)

  • Master of Engineering (siv.ing.) (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, 1988)

Previous Positions:

  • Associate Professor (University of Bergen, 1993–2000)

  • Assistant Professor (University of Bergen, Autumn 1992)

  • Assistant Professor (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Spring 1992)

Academic Leadership:

  • Department Chair (Department of Information Science, 1997–98 and 2001–2002)

  • Department Leader Group (Department of Information Science and Media Studies (2004–)

  • Program Chair/Co-Chair: REFSQ’2001, ’2000, ’1999, IRIS24 (2001), NWPER’2000.

  • Organising Chair/Co-Chair: REFSQ’1998, ’1997, NWPER’1998

  • Initiating and leading several national/local research projects (1995–today)

Academic Services:

  • Guest Editing: RE Journal 7(1)/2002, RE Journal 6(1)/2001, NJC 7(3)/2000, NJC 6(1)/1999.

  • Program Committees: IEEE RE’06, ’04, ‘03, ’02, ’2001, ’1999, ’1997, CAiSE*2006, *2005, *2004, *2003, *2002, *2001, *2000, *1999, *1997, *1995, ECIS’2006 (3 tracks), BP-UML'06, '05, IRMA’2005, ‘2004, IFIP 8.1 Workshop EMMSAD’2005, ’2004, ’2003, ’2002, ‘2001, REFSQ'2006, ’2005, ’2004, ‘2003, ‘2002, EMOI’2005, ’2004, REBN’2005, IHIS’2005, VORTE’05, EMRPS’2000, WISE’2003 MCMIS, IFIP TC8 Working Conference MobIS’2004, ER/IFIP 8.1 Workshop MobiMod’2002, NWPER’2002, ’1998, ’1996, ’1994.

  • Review Board: J Database Management, Int J Interoperability of Business Information Systens.

  • Journal Paper Reviewing: CACM, JAIS, ISR, ACM TOSEM, IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, IEEE Trans on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Software & Systems Modelling, Information Systems, Information and Software Technology, RE Journal, J Database Management, Software: Practice & Experience, L’Objet. Also reviewing for numerous books and conferences, including ICIS and ECIS.

  • Doctoral Consortium panel: CAiSE*2004.

  • Participation in several international research projects and networks.

  • Member of many international and national evaluation committees (professor, tenure and Ph.D.)

  • Member of IFIP WG8.1: Information Systems Design and Evaluation (1999–today)

  • Member of IFIP WG8.1 Task Force on Mobile Information Systems (2000–2002)

  • Member of Program Board for the Norwegian Research Council, 2002–2003 (FIFOS)

  • Member of strategy development committees for the Norwegian Research Council, 2000–2001 (“IKT-forum”) and 2003–2004 (“IKT-fagplanutvalg”)

  • Leader of two ICT-curriculum development committees.

  • Board Member (Faculty of Social Sciences, 1997–98 and 2001–2002)

External Project Funding

  • 2006-2010: M3W – Model-Driven Multi-Channel Mobile Work

  • 2004–2006: INTEROP-NoE — Network of Excellence. Funding: EU, 6th Framework.

  • 1999–2000: Ontological analysis and evaluation of OML and UML. Principal researcher. Funding: COTAR and the University of Technology, Sydney.

  • 1998–1999: Ontology-Based Multi-Perspective Representation and Analysis of Information Systems Problem Domains. Project leader/principal researcher. Funding: Norwegian Research Council and the University of Bergen.

  • 1998–1999: RAISA/Posten: Enterprise modelling and research on IS architectures. Project leader. Funding: Norway Post.

  • 1997–1998: RAISA/Telenor: Research on IS architectures. Project leader. Funding: Telenor AS.

  • 1995–1998: Renoir — Network of Excellence. Research Area Coordinator. Funding: EU, ESPRIT.

  • 1987–1991: IMSE — Integrated Modelling Support Environment. Principal investigator. Funding: EU, ESPRIT.

Also industrial consulting on practical enterprise modeling and IS-architecture management work.

Longer Research Visits Abroad

  • Professor Ángel Ortiz Bas, CIGIP, Dept. of Business Organisation, Financial Economy and Accounting, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, September 2005-June 2006.

  • Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers, School of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney/Australia, August 1999-February 2000.

  • Professor Ron Weber, Department of Commerce, Queensland University, Brisbane/Australia, July 1998-June 1999.

  • Professor Bo Dahlbom, Department of Information Systems, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg/Sweden, January 1994.

  • Professor Heinz Beilner, University of Dortmund, Dortmund/Germany, June 1991.

  • Professor Chi-Song Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing/China, Aug-Oct 1987.

Teaching Experience

Current Supervision: 6 cand.polit. theses and one Ph.D. in progress.

Past Supervision:

  • 24 cand.polit. theses to completion since 1994 at the University of Bergen

  • 4 siv.ing. theses to completion 1989–1991 at the Norw. Univ. of Sci. and Tech.

Courses and seminars: Taught several research seminars and graduate and undergraduate courses annually for the last 15 years (on average). 28 courses and research education seminars since 1988:

  • (Basic/Extended Topics in) Information Systems Development (2004, 2005)

  • Current Research Issues in IT-Strategy and Requirements Determination (2001)

  • IT-Strategy and Requirements Determination (2001)

  • Introduction to Information and Communication Technology (2000)
    (On leave 1998–2000)

  • Computer Networks (1998)

  • Research Education Seminar on IS architectures (1997, 2003)

  • File and Database Management (1997)

  • Introduction to Computer Technology (1996)

  • Information Systems (1995, 1996)

  • Research Education Seminar on IS development (1995, 1996)

  • Systems Analysis and Design (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996)

  • Strategic Use of Information and Information Technology (1995)

  • Introduction to Information Science (1994)

  • Introduction to Computer Equipment (1993)

  • Algorithms and Data Structures (1992)

  • Systemering 2 (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)

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