Empirical work

Qualitative and Quantitative Empirical Work


 * 1) Archival analysis of meeting transcripts of working groups for web service standardization efforts
 * 2) * Mitra, P. Purao, S. J. W. Bagby, K. Umapathy, and S. Paul, An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards, NET Institute Working Paper #05-18. Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
 * 3) * Bagby, J., Purao, S., P. Mitra. 2006. Standards Development, Disruptive Innovation and the Nature of Participation: Lock-In, Lock-Out, Holdup. 34th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC).
 * 4) Focus groups of users, managers and developers engaged in enterprise integration projects
 * 5) * Purao, S., Paul, S., and Smith, S. 2007. Understanding enterprise integration project risks: A focus group study. International Workshop on Enterprise Information Systems Engineering held in conjunction with DEXA 2007. Regensburg, Germany. 3-7 September 2007.
 * 6) Verbal protocol studies of systems designers engaged in conceptual design of information systems
 * 7) * Purao, S., Rossi, M., Bush, A. 2002. Towards an Understanding of Problem and Design Spaces during Object-oriented Systems Development. Information and Organizations. vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 249-281.
 * 8) * Purao, S. Rossi, M. Bush, A. 2001. Problem and Design Spaces during Object-oriented Design: An Exploratory Study. Hawaii Internation Conference on System Sciences. (HICSS) Honolulu, HI, January 5-8.
 * 9) * Bush, A. Purao, S. 1998. Characterizing Process Variables in a Study of Design Behaviors. Association of Information Systems Conference. (AIS) Baltimore, MD, August 14-16
 * 10) Interviews with users and managers of tools deployed for collaboration among complex equipment maintainers and schedulers
 * 11) * Purao, S. Haynes, S. 2004. Modeling to facilitate evaluation and evolution of information systems. Workshop of the Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design. (SIGSAND) St. Johns, Canada, June 8-12
 * 12) * Haynes, S. Purao, S. Winter, J. 2004. Evaluating components in the context of use. International Workshop on Models and processes for the evaluation of COTS components. (In association with ICSE 2004) Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25.
 * 13) Laboratory experiments to assess effectiveness of a tool to assist in software maintenance READABLE
 * 14) * Chua, C., Purao, S., Storey, V. 2005. Developing Maintainable Software: The READABLE Approach. Decision Support Systems. Forthcoming
 * 15) Laboratory experiments to assess effectiveness of a context-aware search tool CONQUER
 * 16) * Storey, V., Burton-Jones, A., Sugumaran, V., and Purao, S. 2007. CONQUER: A Methodology for Context-Aware Query Processing on the World Wide Web. Information Systems Research. Forthcoming.
 * 17) Laboratory experiments to assess effectiveness of a reuse-based design tool APSARA
 * 18) * Purao, S., Han, T., Storey, V. 2003. Improving Reuse-based Design: Augmenting Analysis Patterns Reuse with Learning. Information Systems Research. vol. 14, issue 3, pp. 269-290.
 * 19) Surveys of potential users of reuse-based design tools APSARA
 * 20) * # Purao, S., Storey, V. 2007. Evaluating the adoption potential of design science efforts: The case of APSARA. Decision Support Systems. Forthcoming.
 * 21) Interviews of healthcare professionals and managers to understand deployment of inter-organizational systems