The First Years of IRIS IRIS is the name of the annual meeting of people involved with Information Systems Research in Scandinavia. It has been circulating among the four Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden now already 20 years. In August 1997 the IRIS Association was established. At the same meeting I was invited to give an opening address about the 20 years of IRIS hist...

Qualitative researchers attempt to document observed phenomena relative to the meanings attributed to the phenomena by research participants involved in the specific incident or situation. Relatively recently, the information systems research community has responded to the call for more of an emphasis on conducting qualitative research. This paper presents three theories, Grounded Theory, Perso...

This paper is concerned with a type of information systems research that is comparatively poorly understood – the “systems development” (SD) or “engineering” approach. SD is seen as a natural intermediate step linking basic and applied research and as a form of action research. It is argued that we can learn from the view of SD research as action research and thus develop useful criteria for th...

2 School of Management Information Systems, Deakin University, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] . ABSTRACT: The progressive evolution of the global information society has escalated the debate over effective ways to facilitate relevance in information systems research without sacrificing rigor. Accommodation of interpretivist research methodologies has been suggested to address this prob...

 Recommender systems are a branch of retrieval systems and information matching, which through identifying the interests and requires of the user, help the users achieve the desired information or service through a massive selection of choices. In recent years, the recommender systems apply describing information in the terms of the user, such as location, time, and task, in order to produce re...

    Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is the desired goal of achieving universal access to health services without having to endure pain and financial difficulties. Multiple factors can help steer countries toward UHC. One of the most important factors is the production of valid quality evidence that can be achieved through research. The present study aimed at outlining...