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- Paper forthcoming at the DESRIST Conference: With He, Becker and Strobhar titled Service Extraction from Operator Procedures in Process Industries, Milwaukee, WI. May 2011. More in Conferences
- The first full education update meeting of the Center was held in Falls Church, VA with participation from more than 20 industry participants 24-25 February 2011.
- Seed Grant awarded by the Institute for CyberScience at Penn State: For work related to studies of design processes. (PI: Purao) with Simpson, Jablokow, Hunter and Willis. Award 15k. February 2011.
- The first research meeting of the Center was held in Falls Church, VA with research presentations from G. Cai, B. Cameron, S. Clark, R. Ocker, M. Rossi, and C. Woo and participation from more than 20 industry participants 15-16 February 2011.
- Grant awarded by the Center for Operator Performance: To continue work related to knowledge management in petrochemical industry. (PI: Purao). Award ~97k. February 2011.
- Center for Enterprise Architecture approved at Penn State. I will take on the role of the Research Director and Co-Director of the Center. January 2011.
- Paper forthcoming at Information Systems and E-Business Management: with Umapathy and Bagby titled Empirical Analysis of Anticipatory Standardization Processes: A Case Study, November 2010. More in Publications
- Paper published in IEEE Computer: with Umapathy titled Systems Integration and Web Services, November 2010. More in Publications
- Book Chapter on Action and Design Research with Matti Rossi and Maung Sein in the Book on Design Science published by Alan Hevner and Samir Chatterjee. July 2010.
- Panel on Academic Rigor versus Applications-oriented Research with Udo Bub, Samir Chatterjee, and Oliver Christ at DESRIST 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland. 4 June 2010.
- Grant for REU awarded by NSF: To continue work related to Learning to Build Systems of Systems. Award ~ USD 15k. May 2010.
- Paper forthcoming at MIS Quarterly: with Sein, Henfridsson, Rossi and Lindgren titled Action Design Research, May 2010. More in Publications
- Grant awarded by The Commonwealth Fund: Diffusing Health Information Technology in Rural Areas Through Hospital-to-Hospital Partnerships. (Co-PI: Purao, PI:Reddy, Co-PI: Techatassanasoontorn). Award ~ USD 250k. June 2010.
- Paper forthcoming at IEEE Transactions on Services Computing: with Robinson titled Monitoring Service Systems from a Language-Action Perspective, April 2010. More in Publications
- Paper forthcoming at the NLDB '10 Conference: With Sugumaran, Storey and Conesa, titled On-Demand Extraction of Domain Concepts and Relationships from Social Tagging Websites, Cardiff, Wales, UK. June 2010. More in Conferences
- Paper forthcoming at IS Education Journal: with Cameron titled Enterprise Integration: An Experiential Learning Model, More in Publications
- Paper forthcoming at the SIGCPR '10 Conference: With Suen titled Designing a Multi-Faceted Metric to Evaluate Soft Skills, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 2010. More in Conferences
- Presentation on Evaluation in the Design Sciences at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 2010. More in Presentations
- Presentation on Evaluation in the Design Sciences at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. February 2010. More in Presentations
- Presentation on Enterprise Architecture for Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. November 2009. More in Presentations
- Presentation on Action Design Research for Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA. October 2009. More in Presentations
- Paper forthcoming at the eBiz '09 Conference: With Umapathy and Bagby titled Analyzing the Processes behind Web Service Standards Development., Phoenix, AZ. December 2009. More in Conferences
- Papers forthcoming at the WITS '09 Conference: With Storey and Sugumaran titled From User-contributed Tags to Domain-level Constructs, and With Karunakaran and Cameron titled Recombinable Knowledge Units for Systems Integration Projects December 2009. More in Conferences
- Paper forthcoming at the ICIS '09 Conference: With Karunakaran and Cameron titled From Method Fragments to Knowledge units December 2009. More in Conferences
- Editorial at Journal of Mechanical Design titled Mapping Design Domains, Bridging Design Cultures with Willis, Barton, Simpson and Hunter. August 2009. Download
- Papers forthcoming at the AMCIS '09 Conference: With Vaishnavi, Welke and Lenze on Problem-based Learning, With Srivatsan, He and Jansen on Information Needs of Systems Developers, and With Yi, Clark and Raghuram on Criteria for Process Automation. August 2009. More in Conferences
- Presentation on Action Design Research at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. June 2009. More in Presentations
- Paper forthcoming in the CSCW Journal: With Haynes and Skattebo on Scenario-based Analysis for Evaluating Collaborative Systems, March 2009. More in Publications
- Paper forthcoming at the Integration Journal: With Yi and Clark on Processes to Services, March 2009. More in Publications To be presented at the Global Integration Summit, June 2009.
- Paper forthcoming at Communications of the AIS: With Baldwin, Hevner, Smith, Storey and Zhu on Sciences of Design available at Harvard Business School, Finance Working Paper 09-056 available via SSRN. November 2008. More in Publications
- Research presentation related to knowledge management for petrochemical industry, for the Center for Operator Performance managed from Wright State University. November 2008. More in Presentations
- Research presentations related to technology solutions for healthcare and service computing, at Oakland University. October 2008. More in Presentations
- Paper forthcoming at European Journal of IS: With Umapathy and Barton on reuse of integration patterns. September 2008. More in Publications
- Paper forthcoming at the SOCCER '08 Workshop in conjunction with RE '08: With Robinson on monitoring goals in open business processes. August 2008. More in Conferences
- Paper forthcoming at European Journal of IS: With Smolander and Rossi on an empirical study of software architectures. August 2008. More in Publications
- Graduated: Vasanth Srivatsan. Now part of TriTek Solutions. Vasanth's masters thesis investigates information needs of individuals and teams engaged in enterprise integration projects. August 2008.
- Papers presented at SCC Conference: With Umapathy on use of language-action for pattern reuse. With the CPATH team on use of Problems for Learning Service Computing. With Bagby for Avatars in IT Standardization July 2008. More in Conferences
- Research presentation related to use of language-action theories for developing enterprise integration solutions at IBM Research Lab, July 2008. More in Presentations
- Accepted appointment on the Editorial Board for Journal of the AIS, the flagship research journal of the Association of Information Systems. July 2008.
- Chaired the Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), see the Consortium, 7 May 2008.
- Students in the Advanced Enterprise Integration Class organized and participated in a Project Expo, April 2008.
- Paper published at Journal of the Medical Informatics Association: with Reddy and Kelley. The paper reports a study of hospital-to-hospital partnerships for healthcare infrastructure development. March 2008. More in Publications
- Paper presented at DESRIST Conference: with Umapathy. The work develops a language-action based approach for reuse of patterns in designing enterprise integration solutions. Nominated for Best Paper. March 2008. More in Conferences
- Paper published at Communications of the AIS: with Zhao and others. The paper outlines the impact of service-oriented computing on business and education. March 2008. More in Publications
- Paper published at Information Systems Research: with Storey, Burton-Jones and Sugumaran. The paper develops and evaluates an approach for semantically enhancing web search. March 2008. More in Publications
- Paper forthcoming at IEEE Software: Robinson and Purao. The paper develops an approach for monitoring in open business processes drawing on speech act structures. February 2008. More in Publications
- Accepted appointment as Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly, the top-ranked Information Sciences Journal. January 2008.
- Graduated: Karthikeyan Umapathy. Now an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing, University of North Florida. Karthik's dissertation investigates use of language action theories for service science. December 2007.
- Grant awarded by NSF: Learning to build systems of systems (PI: Purao). The project is aimed at generating knowledge necessary to understand and transfer the model of undergraduate education at College of IST. Award ~ USD 700k. August 2007. Duration: 3 years, Partner Institution: Georgia State (Lead: Vaishnavi). Updates at http://aesop.ist.psu.edu

