Mr Roger Tagg

Welcome! I'm Roger Tagg, Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Science. Please use the next paragraph as my definitive contact details.

My office is now at City West Campus (SM Building, 27-29 North Terrace), room SM1-31. My office phone is +61 8 8302 0413 and fax is +61 8 8302 9190. This semester (study period 5, 2009), I will normally only be at City West on Wednesday afternoons, PLUS EITHER Wednesday mornings OR Thursday afternoons (depending on various commitments). On Mondays (and Tuesday afternoons) I will be teaching at Mawson Lakes, based in room D3-10.

My current consultation hours, in the first half of 2009, are as follows: Mawson Lakes Mondays and Tuesdays 2-3 pm in D3-10; City West Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 pm.

I am semi-retired, therefore I only work 2.5 days a week. I will never be available on Tuesday or Thursday mornings, or Fridays. I will try to read my email on most days, but please be patient if I take a little longer than usual to reply to you.

This study period (August to November 2009), I am course coordinator for "Systems Design". I am also tutor for the Mawson Lakes workshop for "CIS Projects", and for external project students.

My research within the Information Systems Laboratory, on Knowledge Management in Work Support is continuing. As well as a common task-oriented "to-do" list for all a user's applications, and background agents to categorize incoming messages and documents, I am looking at mechanisms for recognizing categories from lexical strings in incoming messages and documents.

I am currently supervising one Honours Thesis and one Multimedia Project with Honours.

Last updated 7th August 2009

Website for the Information Systems Laboratory (part of ACRC, the Advanced Computing Research Centre)

Workflow Management Course (for enrolled students)

Workflow Management Course (public web page)

Maintenance and Re-engineering course (for enrolled students)

Maintenance and Re-engineering course (public web page)

Systems Design course (for enrolled students only)

Systems Design course (public web page)

• Software Engineering for Evolving Business Information Systems
• Workflow Management, Groupware and Document Management

Member of the British Computer Society

Chartered Engineer (UK)

Chartered Information Technology Professional (UK)

B.A. (Cambridge) in Mathematics

M.A. (Cambridge)

• Personal Information Management in a Group Work Environment
• Task Integration - single "to do" list
• Workflow Management
• Context Recognition - from free text; also recognizing significant data like dates, locations, priorities and entity instances the user knows about.
• Relationship-oriented ontology; see Frolio website
• ...
• To access files in my private literature bank (stuff not readily available on the web), you can do so with a password - please email me).

Tagg, R.M., Gandhi, P. and Srinivasan Kumaar, R. (2009) Recognizing Work Priorities and Tasks in Incoming Messages through Personal Ontologies supplemented by Lexical Clues, Proc ECIS (European Conference on Information Systems), Verona, Italy

Tagg, R.M. and Beames, T.J. (2009) How can a Quantum Improvement in Personal and Group Information Management be Realized? Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Milan, May

Gandhi, P and Tagg, R.M. (2009) Ontology-Based Email Categorization and Task Inference using a Lexicon-Enhanced Ontology, Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Milan, May

Peters, G., Tagg, R,M. and Weber, R. (2008) An Application of Rough Set Concepts to Workflow Management, Proc 3rd Intl Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT), Chengdu, China, May slides doc

Tagg, R,M. (2008), Is There a Role for Philosophy in Group Work Support? Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Barcelona, June doc

Tagg, R,M., Lalwani, H. and Srinivasan Kumaar, R. (2008), Easing the Ontology Development and Maintenance Burden for Small Groups and Individuals, Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Barcelona, June doc

Peters, G. and Tagg, R,M. (2007) Managing Incomplete Information in Petri Nets, Proc. Optima Conference, Puerto Montt, Chile, November doc

Tagg, R.M. (2007) Task Integration for Knowledge Workers, 4th Intl Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination, part of ICEIS (see entry below) doc

Peters, G., and Tagg, R.M. (2007) Making Incomplete Information Visible in Workflow Systems, Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Madeira, Portugal, May doc

Tagg, R.M. (2006) IT Support for Periods of Group Creativity in Virtual Enterprises, Proc 7th IFIP Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Helsinki, Finland, September, to appear doc

Tagg, R.M. (2006) Activity-Centric Collaboration with Many to Many Group Membership, CollECTeR Europe, Basel, Switzerland, June doc

Einig, M., Tagg, R.M. and Peters, G. (2006) Managing the Knowledge Needed to Support an Electronic Personal Assistant, Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Paphos, Cyprus, May doc

Peters, G., and Tagg, R.M. (2006) Flexible Completion of Workflow Activities, Proc. ICEIS (Intl Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Paphos, Cyprus, May doc

Peters, G., and Tagg, R.M. (2005) Dimensions of Partial Completion of Activities in Workflow Management, ACIS 2005 (Australian Conference on Information Systems), Manly, NSW doc

Heucke, A., Peters, G. and Tagg, R.M. (2005) An Overview of Intelligent Software Agents, Entry 1598 in Encyclopaedia of Information Science and Technology, IDEA Group Reference doc

Bright, D., Tagg, R.M. and Quirchmayr, G. (2004) Supporting Collaborative Communication in a Multi-layer Meta-process Model for Evolutionary Shared Workflows, International Conference on E-Business, Beijing, December 2004 doc

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Requirements Engineering for Generic Process Aware Systems, Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Adelaide, SA, December doc

Tagg, R.M., Milosevic, Z., Kulkarni, S. and Gibson, S. (2004) Supporting Contract Execution through Recommended Workflows, Dexa '04 Conference, Zaragoza, Spain doc

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Using IT in group work – the next generation, Slides presented at UniSA Public Lecture Series on Intelligent Technologies, July 2004 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Supporting Administration in Asynchronous Team Environments, University of Linz slide presentation, May 2004 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2003) Can we expect a New Generation of Groupware? The FLINT Organisation Topic Meeting slide presentation, London, England ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2003) A New Look at the Dimensions of Flexibility in Workflow Management, invited paper, 5th EURO/Informs Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey. doc

Tagg, R.M. (2003) Software Agents to Support Administration in Asynchronous Team Environments ICEIS 2003 (5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Angers, France doc

Tagg, R.M. and Narayana Murthy, M.K. (2002) Towards a system to improve administrative processes for front-line academic staff (short paper/poster) ADCS 2002 (Australian Document Computing Symposium), U of Sydney doc

Tagg, R.M. (2002), E-Contracts and Virtual Enterprises, Australian Computer Society South Australia Conference slide presentation, Adelaide ppt

Quirchmayr, G., Milosevic, Z., Tagg, R.M., Cole, J. and Kulkarni, S. (2002) Establishment of Virtual Enterprise Contracts, DEXA 02, Aix-en-Provence, France doc

Quirchmayr, G. and Tagg, R.M. (2002) An Architectural Concept for Knowledge Integration in Inter-Administration Computing 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Management in e-Government, IFIP 2002 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark doc

Tagg, R.M. and Quirchmayr, G. (2001) Towards a multi-layer model for evolution of shared workflows in a Virtual Enterprise IIWAS 2001 (3rd International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications and Services), Linz, Austria doc

Tagg, R.M. (2001) Workflow in different styles of Virtual Enterprise ITVE 2001 (Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises), Gold Coast, Queensland doc

Tagg, R.M. (1999) Workflow for Inter-Organisational Environments, in "Synergy Matters" (proceedings of the conference of the UK Systems Society), Lincoln, UK doc

Tagg, R.M. (1998) Components - Where is the Glue? Component-Oriented Software Engineering Workshop at ASWEC ’98 (Australian Software Engineering Conference), Adelaide doc

Tagg, R.M. and Lelatanavit, W. (1998) Using an active DBMS to implement a Workflow engine IDEAS '98 (International Data Engineering and Applications Symposium), University of Wales at Cardiff, UK doc

Tagg, R.M. (1998) Component based development and the role of Workflow CBISE ‘98 (CAiSE*98 workshop on Component Based Information Systems Engineering), Pisa, Italy doc

Tagg, R.M., Lelatanavit, W. and Reddy, S.S. (1997) Preliminary design of a lightweight workflow server ACIS '97 (Australasian Conference on Information Systems), University of South Australia doc

Tagg, R.M. and Freyberg, C.A. (1997) Designing distributed and cooperative information systems, Complete text book, ITP Computer Press, London, UK

Tagg, R.M. (1996) Unifying multiple approaches to cooperative information systems ACIS '96 (Australian Conference on Information Systems), Hobart, Tasmania doc

Tagg, R.M. (1996) Workflow support across organisational boundaries, NZ Conference on Information Systems, Palmerston North, New Zealand doc

A FEW UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS MAY ALSO BE OF INTEREST

Tagg, R.M. (2006) Changing to an Activity Focus in Group and Personal Information Work, doc

Punekar, S. and Tagg, R.M. (2005) Ontology Based Add-In For Automatic Classification Of Incoming E-Mail, doc

Tagg, R.M. and Mahalingam, N. (2005) Improving Customer Service and Reducing Administrative Overload with Sender-assisted Message Categorization, doc

Tagg, R.M. (2005) Critical Success Factors for Achieving a Quantum Improvement in IT support for Individuals and Groups, doc

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Workflow - and other varieties of Process Management: a reflection of where to go next in workflow research and development, June 2004 doc

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Process Management - a New Agenda: with particular reference to Process Management across Enterprise Boundaries, University of Vienna slide presentation, May 2004 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2004) IT Support for Work Management - not just Work Flow, UniSA School of CIS slide presentation, March 2004 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2004) Supporting Inexperienced Teams, DSTC / Uni of Queensland slide presentation, March 2004 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2003) Contrasting Applications of Process Management and Workflow, UniSA School of CIS Slide Presentation, 2003 ppt

Tagg, R.M. (2002), The Task of Design in Distributed, Cooperative and Inter-Enterprise Systems, doc

Tagg, R.M. (2002) Designing a system to improve administrative processes for front-line academic staff, UniSA School of CIS internal report doc

Tagg, R.M. (2001) Document-Oriented and Process-Oriented Views in Lightweight Workflow, doc

Tagg, R.M. and Skelly, L. (2000) Capturing Workflow Definitions from Process Owners – a multi-perspective approach, doc

Tagg, R.M. and Reddy, S.S. (1998) Suitable process models for end-user process improvement and workflow specification Massey University Department of Information Systems technical report 1/98, New Zealand doc

Tagg, R.M. (1996) Widening the Range of Criteria for Selecting an IS Methodology, doc

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Information Systems/Information Technology

• Workflow and Business Process Improvement
• Re-engineering "legacy" computer systems
• Application of ontologies to support personal and small group work
• Relationship between philosophy and information work