Category: 3. Research and Teaching

  • Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Wikis for Software Engineering

    For your information, the fourth workshop on wikis for (in) software engineering. I’m on the program committee. CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”, May 16, 2009, at ICSE 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009 Submissions are due on January 26 (abstracts), February 2 (papers), 2009

  • Organizational Design and Engineering

    Most readers of this blog are probably familiar with Conway’s Law. So named by Fred Brooks in the “Mythical Man-Month” and popularized by the saying “if you have four teams working on a compiler you will get a four-pass compiler.” This sociological observation stipulates that the social architecture of a corporation i.e. its organizational hierarchy…

  • WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers (Submissions)

    WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ October 25-27, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGWEB, co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2009, peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library ======================================================== The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis…

  • Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09)

    For your information, a workshop on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09) CALL FOR PAPERS European Workshop on “Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM’09)” www1.in.tum.de/softeam09

  • PLoP Proceedings now in ACM Digital Library

    Thanks to the efforts of Joe Yoder and Ralph Johnson, the proceedings of the 2006 conference on Pattern Languages of Programming have been archived in the ACM Digital Library. I expect the 2007 and future proceedings to be made available through the ACM DL as well. Whether it will be applied to past years is…

  • Interdisciplinary Research on Wiki Communities Workshop

    For your information, a workshop on interdisciplinary research on wiki communities. CALL FOR PAPERS First Workshop on “Interdisciplinary Research on Wiki Communities”, on September 8, 2008, at WikiSym 2008, Porto, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008 Introduction The array of approaches to studying wikis is a source of wealth but also a possible source of confusion: What…