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Ban Al-Ani

BSc., MSc., DipEd, PhD.

Overview, Resume and Publications

balani[at]ics[dot]uci[dot]edu

Publications

Journals and Book Chapters

Semaan, B., Mark, G., Al-Ani, B. (2011). The Effects of Continual Disruption: Technological Resources Supporting Resilience in Regions of Conflict. In Hagar, C. (2011). Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies. Chandos Publishing, Oxford, UK.

Al-Ani, B., Horsepool, A., Bligh, M., (August 2011). Collaborating with "Virtual Strangers": Towards Developing a Framework for Leadership in Distributed Teams, Leadership Journal, Sage Publications, 7(3), p. 219-249.

Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., (2009). "Supporting Trust in Distributed Teams through Continuous Coordination", IEEE Software, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. , 35-40.

Sarma, A., Al-Ani, B., et al. (2009). Book chapter title: "Continuous Coordination Tools and their Evaluation", Collaborative Software Engineering, Editors: Mistrik, I., Grundy, J., Finkelstein, A., et al, Ch14.

Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., van der Hoek, A., Alvim, M., da Silva, I., Mangano, N., Trainer, E., Sarma, A., (2008), "Continuous Coordination within Software Engineering Teams: Concepts and Tool Support", Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Arabic: special issue on Software Engineering, vol.1, no 3., pp. 10-33.

D. Redmiles, A. van der Hoek, B. Al-Ani, T. Hildenbrand, S. Quirk, A. Sarma, R., Silva Filho, C. de Souza, and E. Trainer, (2007. "Continuous Coordination: A New Paradigm to Support Globally Distributed Software Development Projects, Withschaftsinformatik, 49:2007, pages S28-S38.

Conferences and Workshops

Al-Ani, B., Densmore, M., Cutrell, E., Deardon, A., Grinter, R., Thomas, J., Kam, M., Peters, A., (2013), "Human-Computer Interaction for Development", Special Interest Group (HCI4D SIG) meeting proposal in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). Paris, France, 27 April - 2 May 2013, pp. (in press).

Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., de Souza, C., Prikladnicki, R., Marczak., S., Lanubile, F., Calefato., F., (2013), "Trust in Virtual Teams: Theory and Tools", Workshop proposal in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013, San Antonio, Texas), (in press).

Al-Ani, B., Bietz, M., Wang, Y., Trainer, E., Koehne, B., Marczak, S., Redmiles, D.F., Prikladnicki, R.(2013), "Globally Distributed System Developers: Their Trust Expectations and Processes," In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013, San Antonio, Texas), pp., in press

Al-Ani B., Wang, Y., Marczak, S., Trainer, E., and Redmiles, D.F. (2012)."Distributed Development Teams and Non-Use of the Web 2.0 Technologies: A Proclivity Framework". In Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil), pp. 104 - 113.

Voida, A., Harmon, M.E. & Al-Ani, B. (2012). "Bridging between organizations and the public: Volunteer Coordinators' Uneasy Relationship with Social Computing". Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, TX, May 5-12, pp. 1967-1976, (awarded honorable mention).

Wang, Y., Trainer, E., Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., and Marczak, S. (2012)."Attitude and Usage of Collaboration Tools in GSE: A Practitioner Oriented Theory" In Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), held in conjunction with the 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ACM, New York, NY, 3 (in press)

Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Redmiles, D., Simmons, E., (2012). "Trust and Surprise in Distributed Teams: Towards an Understanding of Expectations and Adaptations", Internation Conference on Intercultural Collaborations (ICIC), India, March 21-23, pp. 97-106.

Al-Ani,B, Mark, G., Chung, J., Jones, J, (2012). "The Egyptian Blogosphere: A Counter-Narrative of the Revolution", International Conference on Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW), Seattle, Washington, 11-15 Feb., pp. 17-26, (awarded honorable mention).

Mark,G., Bagdouri, M., Palen, L., Martin, J., Al-Ani,B., Anderson, K., (2012)."Blogs as a Collective War Diary", International Conference on Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW), Seattle, Washington, 11-15 Feb., pp. 37-46.

Al-Ani, B., Wilensky, H., Redmiles, D., Simmons, E., (2011). "An Understanding of the Role of Trust in Knowledge Seeking and Acceptance Practices in Distributed Development Teams", The 6th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2011, Helsinki, Finland), August 2011, pp 25 - 34.

Trainer, E., Al-Ani, B, Redmiles, D., (2011), "Impact of Collaborative Traces on Trustworthiness", In Proceedings of the 4th International workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering (CHASE '11), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp.40-47.

Voida, A., Harmon, M.E. & Al-Ani, B. (2011). "Homebrew databases: Complexities of everyday information management in nonprofit organizations". Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, BC, May 7-12. New York: ACM Press, pp. 915-924 (awarded honorable mention).

Richardson, D., Al-Ani, B., and Ziv, H., (2010). "Requirements engineering at the margins: avoiding technological hubris through alternative approaches". In Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research (FoSER '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 303-308.

Semaan, B., Mark, G., Al-Ani, B. (2010). "Developing Information Technologies and Government Policies for Citizens Experiencing Disruption: The Role of Trust and Context". In Proceedings of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference ISCRAM 2010, Seattle, May 2-5, 2010.

Al-Ani, B., Mark, G. and Semaan, B. (2010). "Blogging through Conflict: Sojourners in the Age of Social Media". International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC'10), 19-20 August, Copenhagen, Denmark, ACM, pp.29-38.

Al-Ani, B.,(2010). "Questions of Knowledge Management and Engineering". Knowledge Engineering Workshop held in conjunction with International Conference on Global Software Engineering, 22-26 August, ICGSE. NY, (Invited Speaker).

Al-Ani, B., Mark, G. and Semaan, B. (2010). "Blogging in a Region of Conflict: Supporting Transition to Recovery". International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), 10-15 April, CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 1069-1078 (awarded honorable mention).

Al-Ani, B and Redmiles, D., (2009). "Investigating Decision Making Processes (DMPes) in Distributed Development Teams: Findings of a Comparative Empirical Study", International Conference on Global Software Engineering, July 13-16, Limerick, Ireland, pp.51-60.

Al-Ani, B., and Redmiles, D., (2009). "In Strangers We Trust? Findings of an Empirical Study of Distributed Development", IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, July 13-16, Limerick, Ireland, 2009, pp.121-130.

Mark, G.,Al-Ani, B.,Semaan, B., (2009). "Repairing Human Infrastructure in War Zones", International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response (ISCRAM), 10-13 May, Gothenburg, Sweden, (download).

Mark, G., Al-Ani, B., Semaan, B., (2009). "Resilience Through Technology Adoption: Merging the Old and the New in Iraq", International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), 4-5 April, Bostonm, USA, pp. 689-698.

Sim, S., Alspaugh, T., Al-Ani, B., (2008). "Marginal Notes on Amethodical Requirements Engineering: What experts learned from experience", International Conference on Requirements Engineering, 8- 12 September, Barcelona/Spain, pp.105-114.

Al-Ani, B., Edwards, K., (2008). "A Comparative Empirical Study of Communication in Distributed and Collocated Development Teams," IEEE International Conference onGlobal Software Engineering, 2008. ICGSE 2008, pp.35-44, 17-20 Aug. 2008.

Al-Ani, B., Trainer, E., Ripley, R., Sarma, A., van der Hoek, A., Redmiles, D., (2008). Continuous coordination within the context of cooperative and human aspects of software engineering. In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering (CHASE '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-4.

Al-Ani, B., Redmiles, D., (2008). "Forces that Influence Trust in Technology in the Middle East: Culture, Politics and History.", Community and International Development CHI workshop, Florence/Italy, 5-10 April.

Edwards, H. Keith. Kim, Joon Hyun. Park, Sangmi. Al-Ani, Ban(2008). "Global Software Development: Project Decomposition and Task Allocation", International Conference on Business and Information (BAI2008) Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research. ISSN: 1729-9322. Seoul, South Korea. July 7-9, 2008.

Al-Ani, B., Sarma, A., Bortis, G., Almeida da Silva, I., Trainer, E.,, van der Hoek, A.,, Redmiles, D., (2006). "Continuous Coordination (CC): A New Collaboration Paradigm", Supporting the Social Side of Large Scale Software Development, a CSCW 2006 Workshop - Banff, Alberta, Canada, Nov 4-10.

Al-Ani, B and Sim, S., (2006). "So, You Think You're A Requirements Engineer?", Extended abstract, IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Minneapolis/Minnesota 11-15 Sept. 330-331.

Al-Ani, B., Sim, S. E., (2006). "Using Expertise as a Framework for Evaluating Requirements Technology", CERE workshop held in conjunction with Proc. IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Minneapolis/Minnesota 11-15Sept..

Damian, D., Hadwin, A. and Al-Ani, B., (2006). "Instructional design and assessment strategies for teaching Global Software Development: A framework", Proc. of International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, May 20-28.

Damian, D., B. Al-Ani, D. Cubranic, and L. Robles, (2005). "Teaching requirements engineering in global software development: a report on a three-university collaboration", Proc. of Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training, Paris, Aug. 685-690.

Al-Ani, B., Edwards, K., (2004). "An Empirical Study of a New Requirements Analysis Approach", ACM-IEEE Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), Redondo Beach CA, USA, 19-20 August, pp.177 - 186.

Al-Ani, B., Yusop, N., (2004). "Role-Playing, Group Work and Other Ambitious Teaching Methods in a Large Requirements Engineering Course", IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), Brno, Czech Republic, 24-26 May, 299-306.

Al-Ani, B., (2003). "A Framework to Validate Requirements Engineering Research Artifacts", International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering Monterey Bay, California, USA, 8 September.

Al-Ani, B., (2003). "Sowing the Seeds of Requirements Engineering in Post-Graduate Students", International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practices, Las Vegas, 23-26 June, 426-432.

Al-Ani, B., (2002). "A Qualitative Systematic Approach to Requirements Analysis (QSARA)", International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practices, Las Vegas, 23-26 June, pp. 385 - 391.

Al-Ani, B., (2002). "Systems Requirements: Once Captured are Slaughtered", Proceedings of the Australian Workshop for Requirements Engineering, Deaken University, Victoria, Australia, 2 -3 Dec, pp.259-254.

Al-Ani, B., (2001). "A Survey of Practices and Problems Associated with Incomplete User Requirements Documents", Proceedings of the Australian Workshop for Requirements Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, 22 -23 Nov.

Al-Ani, B., Lowe, D., Leaney, J., (1999). "Detection and Evaluation Schemes of Partially Excluded Descriptions Using Questmap", Proceedings of the Australian Workshop for Construction Software Engineering Tools., Macquarie University, Australia, 29 - 30Sept.

Al-Ani, B., Lowe, D., Leaney, J., (1999). "A Taxonomy of Descriptions", Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference for Requirements Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia, 26 - 28Sept, pp. 15-26.

Al-Ani, B., Lowe, D., Leaney, J., (1998). "Incomplete Requirements: When Requirements Go Missing" Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Conference for Requirements Engineering, Deaken University, Australia, 26 - 27 Oct. pp. 154-166.