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Coordinates
and Addresses
Position:
Sr. Research
Scientist, Research Faculty, ISR
Research Director, Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Area:
Software
Office: Room ICS2-202, Bldg. 304
US
mail: Walt Scacchi
Institute for Software Research
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3455 USA
Other: Tel:
+1-949-824-4130
Fax: +1-949-824-1715
E-mail: wscacchi < @>>
ics << dot >>
uci <<dot> edu
Web: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi
Curriculum
Vita (pdf)
Research
Interests
- Organizational
Studies of
Software Development in Open Source Communities
- Networked
Computer Games, Virtual Worlds, and Meta-Game Environments (see Center for Computer Games and
Virtual Worlds and ISR
Research in Computer
Games, Virtual Worlds, and Interactive Technologies)
- Acquisition
of Open Source Software Systems
(including governance, procurement, systems engineering, deployment,
operations and
field support)
- Computer
Supported
Collaborative Work Environments
- Organizational
and Software
Process Modeling and Simulation
- Electronic Commerce (e.g., process components for
procurement and
acquisition)
Upcoming/Recent
Events
- CCC
Workshop on Future Research in Free/Open Source Software,
Irvine, CA, 15-17 February 2010.
- Sixth
International Conference on Open Source Systems, Notre Dame,
IN, 2010.
- New ICS
Center on Computer Games and Virtual Worlds, September 2009.
- IFIP
Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software
- Web
3.0: The Game Web, Calit2, UC Irvine, 21 June 2007, and follow-up
news story
- MASSIVE: A Research Summit on
Networked
Multiplayer Games at
UCI (20 April 2006).
- Corporate Opportunities for
Multiplayer
Games,
OCTANe@UCI and
AeA, at UCI (21 April 2006)
Current/Recent
Research Projects
- Future Research
in Free/Open Source Software,
(2009-2010)
- Decentralized
Virtual Activities and Technologies: A Socio-Technical Approach,
(2008-2011)
- Naval Postgraduate School, Acquisition Research
Program, Emerging Issues in the Acquisition of Open Source
Software and
Open Architectures, (2007-2010).
- Workshop
to Establish National and International
Research Infrastructures for Multidisciplinary Empirical Science of
Free/Open Source Software, (2007-2008)
- Naval Postgraduate School, Center for the Edge, Governance
Issues in Open Source Software Development, (2007-2008)
- Story on research
partnership investigating generation-beyond-next computer game culture
and technology (2007-2009)
- Discovering the Practices and
Processes
of Open Source Software Development (2006-2008)
- Game Research Grid for Science
Learning
Games (2004-2006)
- The Organizational Dynamics of
Software
Bugs, Errors, Issues, and Repairs (2002-2006)
- An Integrated Social and
Technical
Approach to Development of Distributed Inter-Organizational Applications
(2002-2006)
- Understanding Open Source
Software
Development Processes, Practices and Communities
(2000-2005)
- Research Directions for
Continuous
(Re)Design of Open Source Software (Fall 2003-2005)
- Dynamic Process Enactment,
Discovery and
Recovery (Spring
2003-2005)
- Exploring Open Software
Systems
Acquisition Processes and Architectures (2000-2002, archived)
Past
Projects and Research
Legacy
Recent
Publications and
Working Papers
- Game-Based
Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems, to
appear in W.S. Bainbridge (Ed.), Online Worlds: Convergence
of the Real and the Virtual, Springer, New York.
- Collaboration
Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development,
revised version in A. Finkelstein, A. van der Hoek, J.
Grundy, I. Mistrík, and J. Whitehead, (Eds.), Collaborative Software
Engineering, (to appear).
- The
Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems, (with
T. Alspaugh and H. Asuncion), Intern. Workshop on Software
Ecosystems, Intern. Conf. Software Reuse, Falls Church,
VA, September 2009.
- Intellectual
Property Rights Requirements for Heterogeneously Licensed Systems,
(with T. Alspaugh and H. Asuncion), in Proc. 17th. Intern. Conf.
Requirements Engineering (RE09), Atlanta, GA, September
2009.
- Envisioning
National and International Research on the Multidisciplinary Empirical
Science of Free/Open Source Software, (with K. Crowston, G.
Madey, and M. Squire), working paper for the Computing Community
Consortium, Spring 2009.
- Software Licenses, Open Source Components, and Open
Architectures, (with T. Alspaugh and H. Asuncion), revised version to
appear in Proc. 6th.
Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, Monterey, CA (to
appear, May 2009).
- Analyzing
Software Licenses in Open Architecture Software Systems, Proc. Workshop on Emerging
Trends in FLOSS Research and Development, Intern. Conf. Software
Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.
- Understanding Requirements
for Open Source Software, in K,
Lyytinen, P. Loucopoulos, J. Mylopoulos, and W. Robinson (eds.), Design Requirements Engineering:
A Ten-Year
Perspective,
LNBIP 14, Springer-Verlag, 467-494, 2009.
- Towards
a Global Research
Infrastructure for Multidisciplinary Study of Free/Open Source
Software Development, (with L. Gasser), in IFIP Intern.
Federation Info. Processing, Vol. 275; Open Source Development,
Community and Quality; B. Russo, E. Damiani, S. Hissan, B.
Lundell, and G. Succi (Eds.), Boston, Springer, 143-158, 2008.
- A
Collaborative Science Learning Game Environment for Informal Science
Education: DinoQuest
Online, (with R.
Nideffer and J. Adams), revised version in IFIP International
Federation for Information Processing, Volume 279; New Frontiers for Entertainment Computing;
P. Ciancarini, R. Nakatsu, M. Rauterberg, M. Roccetti
(Eds.); Boston: Springer, 71–82.
- Governance
in Open Source Software Development Projects: Towards a Model for
Network-Centric Edge Organizations, (with C. Jensen), Proc. 13th. Intern. Command and
Control Research and Technology Symposium, Bellevue, WA,
July 2008.
- Emerging
Issues in the Acquisition of Open Source Software within the U.S.
Department of Defense, (with T. Alspaugh), Proc. 5th Annual Acquisition Research
Symposium, Vol. 1, 230-244, NPS-AM-08-036, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA .
- Mobilization of Software
Developers: The
Free Software Movement,
(with Margaret Elliott), revised version in Information,
Technology and People, 21(1), 4-33, 2008. Received 2009
Outstanding Paper Award of Excellence from Emerald Literati Network.
- Emerging Patterns of
Intersection and
Segmentation when Computerization Movements Interact, revised version in M.S. Elliott
and K.L. Kraemer (Eds.), Computerization
Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous
Computing,
ASIST Monograph Series, Information Today, Inc. 381-404, 2008.
- Guest
Editorial—Open Source Software for Engineering Education:
Pedagogical Strategies that Leverage Open Source Tools, (with M.
Lytras), IEEE
Transactions on Education, 50(4), November 2007.
- Knowledge
Work Artifacts: Kernel Cousins for Free/Open Source Software Development,
(with M. Elliott and M. Ackerman), Proc.
ACM Conf. Support Group Work
(Group07), Sanibel Island, FL, 177-186, November 2007.
- Free/Open
Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Emerging
Opportunities, Proc.
European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on
the Foundations of Software Engineering, Dubrovnik, Croatia,
459-468, September 2007.
- Open
Source Development, Adoption and Innovation, (edited by J.
Feller, B. Fitzgerald, W. Scacchi, and A. Sillitti,), Springer, New
York, June 2007.
- Guiding
the Discovery of Open Source Software Processes with a Reference Model,
(with C. Jensen),in Proc.
Third IFIP International
Conference on Open Source Systems, Limerick, IR, 11-13
June
2007, 265-270.
- Role
Migration and Advancement Processes in OSSD Projects: A Comparative
Case Study, (with C. Jensen), in Proc. 29th. Intern. Conf.
Software
Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, May 2007, 364-374.
- Free/Open
Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Methods,
in M.V. Zelkowitz (ed.), Advances
in
Computers, 69, 243-295, 2007.
- Understanding
the Development of Free E-Commerce/E-Business Software: A
Resource-Based View, in S.K. Sowe, I. Stamelos, and I.
Samoladas
(eds.), Emerging
Free and Open Source Software Practices, IGI
Publishing, Hershey, PA, 170-190, 2007.
- Open Source Systems, (edited by E. Damiani, B.
Fitzgerald,
W. Scacchi, M. Scotto, and G. Succi), Springer, New York, June 2006.
- Understanding Free/Open Source
Software
Development Processes,
(with Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam, and Karim
Lakhani), Software Process--Improvement and Practice,
11(2),
95-105, March/April 2006.
- Experiences in Discovering,
Modeling,
and Reenacting Open Source Software Development Processes, (with Chris Jensen), in
Mingshu Li,
Barry Boehm, and Leon J. Osterweil (eds.), Unifying the
Software
Process Spectrum: Proc. Software Process Workshop, Beijing,
China,
May 2005, 442-469, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
- Modeling Recruitment and Role
Migration
Processes in OSSD Projects,
(with Chris Jensen), Proc. 6th Intern.
Workshop on
Software Process Simulation and Modeling, St. Louis, MO, May
2005.
- Multi-Modal Modeling, Analysis
and
Validation of Open Source Software Development Processes, (with Chris Jensen, John
Noll, and
Margaret Elliott), Intern. J. Internet Technology and Web
Engineering, 1(3), 49-63, 2006. Previous version appeared in Proc.
First Intern. Conf. Open Source Software, 1-8, Genova, Italy,
July
2005. Received Best Paper Award. Reprinted
in G. Alkhatib and D. Rine, (Eds.), Integrated Approaches in
Information Technology and Web Engineering: Advancing Organizational
Knowledge Sharing, Information Science Reference, Hershey,
PA, 51-65, 2009.
- Collaboration, Leadership,
Control, and
Conflict Negotiation in the NetBeans.org Software Development Community, (with Chris Jensen), Proc.
38th. Hawaii Intern, Conf.
Systems Science, Waikola Village, HI,
January 2005.
- Process Modeling Across the
Web
Information Infrastructure,
(with Chris Jensen), Software Process--Improvement and
Practice, 10(3),
255-272, July-September 2005. Earlier version
appears in Proc.
5th.
Intern. Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling,
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
- Opportunities and Challenges
for
Modeling and Simulating Free/Open Source Software Processes, working paper, Institute for
Software
Research, October 2004, based on a Keynote Address
presented at the Proc.
5th.
Intern. Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling,
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
- Data Mining for Software
Process
Discovery in Open Source Software Development Communities, (with Chris Jensen), Proc.
Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 96-100, Edinburgh,
Scotland, May 2004.
- Socio-Technical Interaction
Networks in
Free/Open Source Software Development Processes, in S.T. Acuña and
N. Juristo (eds.), Software
Process Modeling, 1-27, Springer Science+Business Media Inc.,
New
York, 2005.
- Discovering, Modeling, and
Reenacting
Open Source Software Development Processes, (with Chris Jensen), revised
version
in S.T. Acuna and M.I. Sanchez-Segura (eds.), New Trends in
Software Process Modeling, Series in Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 18, 1-20, 2006.
- Continuous Design of Free/Open
Source
Software: Workshop Report and Research Agenda, (with Les Gasser), UCI-UIUC
Workshop
on Continuous Design of Open Source Software, 15 October 2003.
- Understanding Continuous
Design in F/OSS
Projects,
(with Les
Gasser, G. Ripoche, and B. Penne), 16th.
Intern. Conf.
Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications,
Paris,
December 2003.
- Socio-Technical Design, in W. S. Bainbridge (ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 656-659,
Berkshire
Publishing Group, 2004.
- Free/Open Source Software
Development
Practices in the Computer Game Community, IEEE Software,
21(1), 59-67,
January/February 2004.
- Understanding Free/Open Source
Software
Evolution,
revised
version to appear in N.H. Madhavji, J.F. Ramil and D.
Perry (eds.), Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and
Practice, 181-206, John Wiley and
Sons Inc, New
York, 2006.
- Free Software Development:
Cooperation
and Conflict in A Virtual Organizational Culture, (with Margaret Elliott),
revised
version in S. Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software
Development,
152-172, Idea Publishing, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005.
- Free Software Developers as an
Occupational Community: Resolving Conflicts and Fostering Collaboration, (with Margaret Elliott), Proc.
ACM
Intern. Conf. Supporting Group Work (Group'03), 21-30,
Sanibel
Island, FL, November 2003.
- When is Free/Open Source
Software
Development Faster, Better, and
Cheaper than
Software Engineering? Working
Paper, Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine, April 2003.
- Simulating an Automated
Approach to
Discovery and Modeling of Open Source Software Development Processes, (with Chris Jensen), Proc.
ProSim'03 Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling,
Portland, OR May 2003.
- Issues and Experiences in
Modeling Open
Source Software Processes, Proc. 3rd.
Workshop on Open Source Software
Engineering, 25th. Intern. Conf. Software Engineering,
Portland,
OR, May 2003.
- Automating the Discovery and
Modeling of
Open Source Software Processes, (with Chris Jensen), Proc.
3rd.
Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, 25th. Intern.
Conf.
Software Engineering, Portland, OR, May 2003.
- Communicating and Mitigating
Conflict in
Open Source Software Development Projects, (with Margaret Elliott), Projects
& Profits, IV(10), 25-41, October 2004.
- Open EC/B: A Case
Study in
Electronic Commerce and Open Source Software Development, Working Paper, Institute for
Software
Research, UC Irvine, July 2002.
- Open Acquisition: Combining
Open Source
Software Development with System Acquisition, Working Paper, Institute for
Software
Research, UC Irvine, July 2002.
- Understanding the Social,
Technological,
and Policy Implications of Open Source Software Development, position paper presented at
the NSF
Workshop on Open Source Software, January 2002 (revised
August
2002).
- Understanding the Requirements
for
Developing Open Source Software Systems, IEE
Proceedings--Software,
149(1), 24-39, February 2002.
- Hypertext for Software
Engineering,
revised version appears in J.
Marciniak (ed.), Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, 2nd.
Edition,
Wiley, 612-621, 2002 (in PDF).
- Process Models in Software
Engineering,
revised version to appear in J.
Marciniak (ed.), Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, 2nd.
Edition,
Wiley, 993-1005, 2002 (in PDF).
- Modeling and Simulating
Software
Acquisition Process Architectures, (with James Choi) appears in
Journal
of Systems and Software, 59(3), 343-354, 15 December 2001 (in
PDF).
- Software Development Practices
in Open
Software Development Communities, presented at the 1st Workshop on Open Source
Software
Engineering,
Toronto,
Ontario, May 2001).
- Specifying Process-Oriented
Hypertext
for Organizational Computing, (with John Noll) appears in J.
Network and Computer Applications, 24(1):39-61, 2001 (in PDF
or in Postscript).
- Redesigning Contracted Service
Procurement for Internet-based Electronic Commerce: A Case Study, appears in J.
Information
Technology and Management, 2(3), 313-334, 2001.
- Understanding Software Process
Redesign
using Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, revised version appears in Software
Process--Improvement and Practice, 5(2/3), 183-195, 2000.
- List of abstracts and links to some
other
research papers that I
have (co-)authored
Web based
presentations (in
HTML, PDF, or PPT)
- The
Process of Innovation in Computing: A Personal 30 Year Perspective (PDF)
- Free/Open
Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Emerging
Opportunities (PDF),
or the full paper can be found here
- Recent
Developments in Science Learning Games for Informal Science Education
(PDF)
- Web
3.0: Game Web Research at the UCI Game Lab (PDF)
(RM
video)
- Research
and Educational Innovations in Computer Games (PDF)
- Enabling
Exponential Innovation via Open Source Software Development (PDF)
- Recent
Advances in Science Learning Games (PDF)
- Identifying
New Market Opportunities through Process Discovery (PDF)
- Computing
Gaming as a Social Movement (PDF)
- Innovations
in Informal Science
Education: DinoQuest and DinoQuest Online (PDF)
- Patterns of Sustained
Collaborative
Creativity Across Open Computerization Movements
(PDF)
- Collaboration
Infrastructure for a Virtual Residency in Game Culture and Technology
(PDF)
- Opportunities for Game Culture
and
Technology in Public Libraries (PDF)
- Understanding and Improving
Software
Productivity (PDF), or a vintage paper can be
found here.
- Computer
Games, Open Source Software, and other Socio-Technical Processes (PDF)
- Discovering, Modeling, and
Reenacting
Free/Open Source Software Development Processes and Practices, or the paper can be found here.
- Collaboration, Leadership,
Control, and
Conflict Negotiation in the NetBeans.org Community, or the paper can be found here
- Modeling and Simulating
Free/Open Source
Software Development Processes, or the full paper can be
found here.
- Strategies for Developing and
Deploying
Free/Open Source Software
- Understanding the Requirements
for
Developing and Designing Open Source Software
- Software Process Simulation
and
Modeling: A Review
- Simulating an Automated
Approach to
Discovery and Modeling of Open Source Software Development Processes, or the full paper can be
found here
- Understanding the Potential
for Open
Government: Open Source Processes for E-Government
- The UCI Game Lab Research
Program
- Understanding the Requirements
for Open
Source Software System Development, or the full paper can be
found here
- Understanding and Visualizing
Information Work Processes and Practices
- Understanding and
(Re)Designing Software
Development Processes
- Understanding, Communicating,
and
(Re)Designing Complex Organizational Processes
- Process Life Cycle Engineering, or the full paper can be
found here.
- Experience with Software
Process
Simulation and Modeling,or
the full paper can be found here.
- Supporting Software
Development in
Virtual Enterprises,or
the full paper can be found here.
- Understanding Work Processes
and
Practices: A Computational Approach
- Developing a Knowledge Web for
Process
Redesign,
or the full
paper can be found here.
- Computational Business
Processes as
Software Components for Electronic Commerce, or a position paper can be
found here.
- (Re)Designing Software
Production
Architectures
- Experience with Software
Architectures
and Configured Software Descriptions, or a position paper can be
found here.
Current/Vintage
Editorial
Board Positions
Intern.
J. Social and Humanistic Computing (IJSHC), (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=225)
Intern. J. Open Source Software
& Processes, (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=7978&v=callForPapers)
Software
Process --
Improvement and Practice (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1077-4866/)
Encyclopedia of Software
Engineering (2nd.
Edition, 2002), John
Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Journal
of Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0925-9724)
Other
Interests
Having
a good time!
Institute
for Software Research
Donald
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University
of California, Irvine
Irvine,
CA 92697-3455
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modified: 26 October 2009