This paper examines the opportunities and challenges related to data and process integration architectures in the context of Web Services. A primary goal of most enterprises in today’s economic environment is to improve productivity by streamlining and aggregating business processes. This paper illustrates how integration architectures based on Web Services offer new opportunities to improve pr...

Software vulnerabilities originating from design decisions are hard to find early and time consuming to fix later. We investigated whether the problematic design decisions themselves might be relatively easier to find, based on the concept of “technical debt,” i.e., design or implementation constructs that are expedient in the short term but make future changes and fixes more costly. If so, can...

Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers collaborating to generate good reliable code. Among the software code there exist technical dependencies that arise from software components using services from other components. The different ways of assigning the design, development, and testing of these software modules to people can cause various ...

ÐSoftware engineers use a number of different types of software development technical review (SDTR) for the purpose of detecting defects in software products. This paper applies the behavioral theory of group performance to explain the outcomes of software reviews. A program of empirical research is developed, including propositions to both explain review performance and identify ways of improv...

Proficiency in management activities undertaken in product development processes is regarded as a key competitive advantage for companies, particularly for high-tech industrial firms, which benefit from the important competitiveness factor of launching products with a differentiated technological content. This paper’s objective was to identify, through case study, practices for integration betw...

"Games for Health routinely sees 400-500 attendees across three days of events comprised of game developers, health professionals, investors, researchers, and health industry stakeholders. Attendees come mostly from all over the United States but are often joined by representatives from over a dozen countries around the globe. Many attendees are from large organizations including public tech & ...

It has become increasingly common to produce goods in a number of geographically dispersed stages linked by international trade. This tendency, known by names such as “production fragmentation”, “processing trade”, and “vertical specialization”, has important implications for the analysis of nontariff measures (NTMs) and trade facilitation. First, different types of NTMs or trade facilitation i...

A recent study by Autor et al. (2008) has pointed out that the skill premia has risen in the US since the 60s. Several other authors have highlighted these trends across different OECD countries (e.g., Katz and Murphy, 1992; Machin, 1996; Goldin and Katz, 1999; Chay and Lee, 2000, Conte and Vivarelli, 2007). A common consensus points to the on-going growth of the demand for high-skilled workers...

To my parents iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Prof. Edward J. Coyle, for his invaluable advice and persistent support during my Ph.D. study. Without his guidance, I would not have been able to successfully complete my dissertation. Moreover, his guidance in both my research and life has pretty much reshaped my way of thinking and working in the p...