This study is going to provide directions to open source practitioners to better organize their projects to achieve greater performance. In this research, we try to understand socio-technical interactions in a system development context by examining the joint effect of developer team structure and open source software architecture on OSS development performance. We hypothesize that developer te...

This is an attempt to develop a universal socio-technical computing machine that captures and coordinates human input to let collective problem solving activities emerge on the Web without the need for an a priori composition of a dedicated task or human collective.

The idea of a socio-technical system (STS) is an intellectual tool to help recognize patterns in the way technology is used and produced. Identification of these patterns will help in analyzing the ethical issues associated with the technology-and-its-social-system [1]. By way of example, consider a relatively simple technology: a set of twenty laptops connected by a local area network. The soc...

Integrating organizational development (OD) and technological intervention into a total system is one of the more difficult tasks for an executive or consultant to execute. Organizations are profoundly affected by technological advancements and require a flexible customized change model to fit the social network of the specific organization into which technology is being introduced. Examines so...

As the concept of cyberinfrastructure (CI) matures people question whether it is something that can be designed or built. These doubts may stem from considering design as a time-limited process or the lack of a framework in which to view, integrate, and compare knowledge relevant to e-Science applications. This paper addresses these issues by identifying the components of a preliminary framewor...

In this paper we present some reflections stemming from a case study aimed at building a socio-technical infrastructure for supporting participatory design and development. We summarize and abstract our experience into an hourglass approach defined by the intersection of two co-evolving dimensions of infrastructuring: the social and the technical ones. Different subsets of the community, charac...

Many systems are hacked daily and apparently without much effort (e.g., see [1]). This happens because hackers prefer not to break security mechanisms immediately, but rather to target unguarded components first. Such components, e.g., users and human-computer ceremonies [2], are hacked by exploiting cognitive features (e.g., trust) and people’s dismay with ill-designed interfaces. These user-r...

to support multiple views in the sense of (Kruchten 1995). More specifically Darwin corresponds to a couple of Kruchten’s views: the behavioural view and the service view for the purpose of behavioural analysis and construction, respectively. Each view is an elaboration of the basic structural view (i.e., the skeleton upon which the flesh of behavioural specification is hung). 3.2.3.1 Architect...

Recent initiatives that evaluate the security of physical systems with objects as assets and people as agents –here called Socio-Technical Physical Systems– have limitations: their agent behaviour is too simple, they just estimate feasibility and not the likelihood of attacks, or they do estimate likelihood but on explicitly provided attacks only. We propose a model that can detect and quantify...

NetTrust is a system that informs individual browsing and information-sharing decisions by leveraging first, second and third party information. Net Trust uses first person browsing history to create implicit ratings as well as enabling explicit ratings and comments. NetTrust similarly provides information from a user-selected social network by sharing ratings from browsing histories and annota...