Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering

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S E M I N A R

 

Social Structures in Software Engineering

 

Prof. Dr. Hans van Vliet
VU University Amsterdam
Software Engineering Department

Software is designed and written by groups of people, often distributed across sites and continents. These groups form social communities, with different ties, governance structures, membership structures, and so on. In this talk I explore ways to map the actual structure of a software development projects onto well-known Organizational Social Structures in order to assess quality aspects of a software development organization in terms of this mapping.

Hans van Vliet is Professor in Software Engineering at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1986. He got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include software architecture, knowledge management in software development, global software development, and empirical software engineering. Before joining the VU University, he worked as a researcher at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI, Amsterdam). He spent a year as a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is the author of “Software Engineering: Principles and Practice", published by Wiley (3rd Edition, 2008). He is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.10 on software architecture, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software.

 

DATE: 24 October, 2013, Thursday @ 15:40
PLACE: EA-409