News

2018

: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Software Ecosystem Architectures,, with Walt Scacchi, to appear in IEEE Software.

2017

: Issues in development and maintenance of open architecture software systems, with Walt Scacchi, published in CrossTalk — The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.
: Cybersecure modular open architecture software systems for stimulating innovation, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 14th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Cybersecure Modular Open Architecture Software Systems for Stimulating Innovation, with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2016-17 through the Naval Postgraduate School.

2016

: Achieving better buying power for mobile open architecture software systems through diverse acquisition scenarios, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 13th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Achieving Better Buying Power through Cost-Sensitive Acquisition of Open Architectures Software Systems for Diverse Acquisition Scenarios, with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2016-17 through the Naval Postgraduate School.

2015

: Achieving better buying power through acquisition of open architecture software systems for web-based and mobile devices, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 12th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Achieving Better Buying Power through Cost-Sensitive Acquisition of Open Architectures for Mobile and Web-Based Software Systems, with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2015-16 through the Naval Postgraduate School.

2014

: Achieving better buying power through cost-sensitive acquisition of open architecture software systems, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 11th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Achieving Better Buying Power through Cost-Sensitive Acquisition of Open Architecture Software Systems, with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2014-15 through the Naval Postgraduate School.

2013

: Ongoing Software Development Without Classical Requirements, with Walt Scacchi, published in the proceedings of the International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2013).
: Streamlining the process of acquiring secure open architecture software systems, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 10th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Processes in Securing Open Architecture Software Systems, with Walt Scacchi, published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP 2013).
: The Challenge of Heterogeneously Licensed Systems in Open Architecture Software Ecosystems, with Hazeline U. Asuncion, and Walt Scacchi, published as a chapter in Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry, edited by Slinger Jansen, Michael Cusumano, and Sjaak Brinkkemper.

2012

: Streamlining the Process of Acquiring Secure Open Architecture Systems with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2012-13 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
: Software Licenses, Coverage, and Subsumption, with Walt Scacchi and Rihoko (Inoue) Kawai, and Licensing Security., with Walt Scacchi, published in the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law.
: Understanding the Role of Licenses and Evolution in Open Architecture Software Ecosystems, with Walt Scacchi, published in the Journal of Systems and Software, special issue on Software Ecosystems, volume 85 issue 7.
: Addressing challenges in the acquisition of secure software systems with open architectures, with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 9th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Designing Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Open Source and Closed Source Components, with Walt Scacchi, presented for the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2012).
: Software Licenses, Open Source Components, and Open Architectures with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, published as a chapter in Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures, edited by Ivan Mistrík, Antony Tang, Rami Bahsoon, and Judith A. Stafford.

2011

I was honored to be mistaken recently as Francophone in conversation with a French person: during a recent sojourn in the Côte-d'Or, I exchanged polite greetings and a little small talk with the cashier in a museum bookstore, who warned me (in French) You know this book is the English version, right?

: Investigating Advances in the Acquisition of Secure Systems Based on Open Architectures with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2011-12 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
: I will be in the Miami area for two years while my wife is at the Federal District Court there. Plans are to continue my research and funding through UCI.
: Governance and Accountability in the New Data Ecology: A Vision for Electronic Data Licenses, with Travis D. Breaux, presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW 2011).
: Getting the Whole Story: An Experience Report on Analyzing Data Elicited Using the War Stories Procedure, with Susan Elliott Sim, has been published in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal.
: Presenting Software License Conflicts through Argumentation, with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'11).
: Advances in the acquisition of secure systems based on open architectures with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 8th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Invited to join the program committee for the Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law.
: After a lengthy closing process, the accounts for the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'09) have finally closed, with the conference ending in the black despite difficult economic times.

2010

: Software Licenses in Context: The Challenge of Heterogeneously-Licensed Systems, with Walt Scacchi and Hazel Asuncion, published in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems 11(11), Nov. 2010.
: Invited to join the program committee for the International Conference on Software Engineering '11 Software Engineering in Practice track.
: Investigating Advances in the Acquisition of Secure Systems Based on Open Architecture, Open Source Software, and Software Product Lines with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2010-11 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
: Mil-OSS WG2 participant, Arlington, VA 4-5 August.
: CCC/CRA FOSS 2010 Final Report Working Group participant, Chicago, IL, 23-24 June.
: The Challenge of Heterogeneously Licensed Systems in Open Architecture Software Ecosystems with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 7th Acquisition Research Symposium.
: Investigating Advances in the Acquisition of Systems Based on Open Architecture and Open Source Software with Walt Scacchi and Hazel Asuncion, funded for 2009-10 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
: Invited to join the program committee for the International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems '11.
: CCC/CRA FOSS 2010 Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software participant, Newport Beach, CA, 10-12 Feb.