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DR SIMON MILTON



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/smilton
Work: 8344 1528
Fax: 9349 4596
Room: 3.47
Level: 03
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Ontological Analysis of Data Modelling Languages, Ontological Foundations of Information Systems Design Methodologies Ontology, Data modelling, Information Systems Design Methodologies, Foundations of Information Systems, Information Systems Modelling Australia, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science Exchange, Research
United States State University of New York at Buffalo Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Hons) University of Tasmania 31-Dec-1988
Doctor of Philosophy University of Tasmania 12-Aug-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Information Systems Member 09-Aug-2001

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
A methodology for designing information systems based on situational theories of agency Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Improving the Effectiveness of Conceptual Model Validation Work
Weber R.A. and Milton S.K. Australian Research Council Discovery, funded three years from 2007. Administered by Monash University.

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • A Methodology for Situated Analysis and Design
    Year: 2008
    Book: Modern Systems Analysis and Design Technologies and Applications
    Publisher: IGI Global(Hershey, PA)
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Journal Articles

  • Investigating the Epistemological Stances Implicit in ISAD Approaches
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Enterprise Information Management
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 125-138
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Generating an Ontology from Scientific works: Initial Results
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 523-531
    Publisher: Canterbury University Press(Christchurch)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • An Action-Centred Approach to Conceptualising Information Support for Routine Work
    Year: 2007
    Book: Information Systems Foundations: Theory, Representation and Reality
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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  • Indexing Research: An Approach to Grounding Ingarden's Ontological Framework
    Year: 2007
    Book: Information Systems Foundations: Theory, Representation and Reality
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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Journal Articles

  • Ontological Foundations of Representational Information Systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Informations Systems
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 109-134
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Grounded Theory as Foundations for Methods in Applied Ontology
    Year: 2007
    Event name: QualIT
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of QualIT 2007
    Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington
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  • RQF Publication Quality Measures: Methodological Issues
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Publisher: The University of Southern Queensland(Toowoomba)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Analyzing and comparing ontologies with meta-models
    Year: 2005
    Book: Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies
    Publisher: Idea Group(Hershey)
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  • Lessons learned from manual systems: designing information systems based on the situational theory of agency
    Year: 2005
    Book: Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticising
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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  • The reality of information systems research
    Year: 2005
    Book: Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticising
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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  • Using a common-sense realistic ontology: Making data models better map the world
    Year: 2005
    Book: Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies
    Publisher: Idea Group(Hershey)
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Journal Articles

  • Situated information systems: Supporting routine activity in organisations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Business Information Systems
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1/2
    Page numbers: 53-82
    Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Developing a methodology for designing routine information systems based on the situational theory of action
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The 13th European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2005
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Institute for Management of Information Systems, University of Regensb(Regensberg)
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  • How useful are traditional data models for modelling "situated" systems?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference 2005
    Page numbers: 287-290
    Publisher: IADIS Press(Lisbon)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Representing part-whole relations in conceptual modelling: A comparison of object-oriented and entity relationship modellers
    Year: 2004
    Book: Constructing the infrastructure for the knowledge economy: Methods, tools, theory and structure
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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  • Top-level ontology: The problem with naturalism
    Year: 2004
    Book: Formal Ontology in Information Systems
    Publisher: IOS Press(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • An ontology of data modelling languages: A study using a common-sense realistic ontology
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Database Management
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 19-38
    Publisher: Idea Group(Hershey)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Identifying theories of agency in information systems
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2004
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Association for Information Systems(Texas)
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  • Representing Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modelling: A Comparison of Object-Oriented and Entity Relationship Modellers
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 12th International Conference on Information Systems and Development
    Conference Publication: Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 155-167
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An exploratory study of information systems subject indexing
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2003
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
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  • The significance of routines for the analysis and design of information systems: a preliminary study
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 11th European Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Information Systems
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: CUEN(Naples)
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  • Using meta models for the comparison of ontologies
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 8th CaiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation Modelling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design EMMSAD '03
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 8th CaiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design EMMSAD '03
    Page numbers: 160-169
    Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln(Lincoln)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • On the study of data modelling languages using Chisholm's ontology
    Year: 2002
    Book: Information modelling and knowledge bases XIII
    Publisher: IOS Press(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • The foundational role for theories of agency in understanding information systems design
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Information Systems
    Volume: Special Issue
    Page numbers: 40-49
    Publisher: University of Wollongong
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An ontological study of data modelling languages using Chisholm's ontology
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 11th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
    Page numbers: 21-32
    Publisher: University of Maribor(Maribor)
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  • Data modelling languages: An ontological study
    Year: 2001
    Event name: The 9th European Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Global Co-operation in the New Millennium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 304-315
    Publisher: Moderna organisacija(Kranj)
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  • The significance of intentionality for the ontological evaluation of information systems.
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 7th Americas Conference on Information System
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 7th Americas Conference on Information System
    Page numbers: 1980-1986
    Publisher: Association of Information Systems(Atlanta)
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