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Position: Research Specialist
Area:       Software
Office:      ICS2-241

US mail:  Margaret S. Elliott
               Institute for Software Research
               School of Information and Computer Science
               University of California
               Irvine, CA 92697-3425 USA
Other:     Tel: +1-949-824-8756
               Fax: +1-949-824-1715
               E-mail: melliott@ics.uci.edu
               Web: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott

Margaret's CV can be found in (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/resumeweb.htm).

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

My current projects include the study of free/open source software development communities as occupational communities and of how their beliefs, values, and norms regarding free/open source software influence work practices in a virtual community, and the study of the organizational culture of criminal courts and how it influences technology use.  I am especially intrigued by the way that computing can alter work practices and influence or reinforce organizational culture beliefs and values.   I am also interested in the modeling of free/open source software development techniques in order to compare them to typical software development methods in a "closed" environment with the goal of identifying which free/open source software development techniques might be used successfully in typical software development organizations.

Previous Research Projects

Projects

Selected Publications and Working Papers

 

Elliott, M. (2003). The Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community. Paper presented at the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software, Portland, Oregon.  http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2003/

Elliott, M. (2002). Computing in a Virtual Organizational Culture: Open Software Communities as Occupational Subcultures. Working Paper. Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine. (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/occup-subcul.pdf)

Elliott, M. (2000). Organizational Culture and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in a Common Information Space: Case Processing in the Criminal Courts. Unpublished Dissertation. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M. (1999). Final Report on Case Management Evaluation SJI-98-T-007. Irvine, CA: Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

     http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/reports/Elliott-CaseMan-Final-99.pdf

Elliott, M. (1999). Final Report on Case Management Evaluation SJI-98-T-007. Irvine, CA: Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M. (1997). Moving from Paper-based to Digital Documents: Case Study of Public Defenders Using Case Management and Legal Research Tools. Paper presented at the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii.

Elliott, M. (1995). Empirical Study of Video Conferencing on the Mbone. In Proceedings of 1995 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Tokai University at Honolulu, March 31- April 2.

Elliott, M. (1995). National Information Infrastructure Research at University of California, Irvine. Technical Report 9-22, June 8.

Elliott, M. (1994). Computer-assisted Fault Tree Construction Using a Knowledge-based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 43(1), 112-120.

Elliott, M. (1990). Knowledge-based systems for reliability analysis. In 1990 Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Los Angeles, CA., January 22-25.

Elliott, M. (1989). Knowledge-based systems for reliability analysis in concurrent design. In Proceedings IJCAI-89 Concurrent Engineering Design Workshop, IJCAI-89, Detroit, Michigan, August.

Elliott, M., & King, J. (1996). From OJ to OK: Lessons from the Use of Emergent CSCW Technologies in California Criminal Courts. (Working Paper). Irvine, CA: Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M., & Kling, R. (1996 ). Organizational Usability of digital libraries in the courts. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii.

Elliott, M., & Kling, R. (1997). Organizational Usability of digital libraries: Case study of legal research in civil and criminal courts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(11), (1023-1035).

Elliott, M. and Kling, R. (1997). Organizational Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Study of Legal Research in Civil and Criminal Courts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(11), 1023-1035.

Elliott, M. & Scacchi, W. (2003a). Free Software:  A Case Study of Software Development in A Virtual Organizational Culture. Working Paper. Irvine, CA: Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine.

      (http://www.ics.uci.edu/tech_reports/UCI-ISR-03-6.pdf)

 

Elliott, M. & Scacchi, W. (2003b). Conflict Management in an Occupational Community for Free Software Development.  In GROUP'03 International Conference on Supporting Group Work.

(http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/papers/Elliott-Scacchi-GROUP-03.pdf)

 

Elliott, M. & Scacchi, W. (2004). Free Software Development:  Cooperation and Conflict in a Virtual Organizational Culture. To appear in S. Koch (Ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development: Idea Press.
(http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/papers/Elliott-Scacchi-BookChapter.pdf)

Elliott, M. and Scacchi, W. (2002). Communicating and Mitigating Conflict in Open Source Development Projects. Working Paper. Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/commossd.htm or http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/commossd.pdf.

Kling, R. & Elliott, M. (1994). Digital Library Design for Usability. In Schnase, J., Leggett, J., Furuta, R. K., and Metcalfe, T. (Eds.). In Proceedings Digital Libraries '94 Conference. College Station, Texas, June.

O'Rorke, P., El Fattah, Y., and Elliott, M. (1993a). Explaining and Generalizaing Diagnostic Decisions. In P. E. Utgoff (Ed.), Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference, Amherst, MA: Morgan Kaufman.

O'Rorke, P., El Fattah, Y., and Elliott, M. (1993b). Explanation-based Learning for Qualitative Decision-making. In N. Piera-Carrete (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third IMACS International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, Barcelona, Spain.

Invited Talks

Talk on “The Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community”, 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software, Portland, Oregon, May 3, 2003.  http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/presentations/Elliott-IEEOS-Workshoppres.pdf.

Presentations

Paper presentation at GROUP'03:  
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott/presentations/GROUP03a.pdf

Personal Interests


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