Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:15:02 +0100
Subject: 16 November 2012, 11:00, L017: Patricia Lago
From: Vadim Zaytsev
To: PEM
Cc: Patricia Lago, Damian Tamburri

Dear environmentalists,

This week we have an invited speaker from Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam: Dr. Patricia Lago will present her joint research with
Damian Tamburri on supporting communities in global software
engineering. You are all welcome to attend and participate in the
discussion!

 Date: 16 November 2012
 Time: 11:00-12:00
 Room: L017
 Speaker: Patricia Lago (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - see bio below
 Title: Supporting GSE Communities as Agile Service Networks
 Abstracts: see below

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        Supporting GSE Communities as Agile Service Networks

Communities of developers have rapidly become global, encompassing
multiple timezones and cultures. In this vivid scenario, global
development involves many types of interactions across different types
of communities. While global development have promised considerable
advantages like lower costs, cheaper manpower, faster delivery and
higher quality, little has been done to turn global development into
an engineering discipline, hence making these advantages predictable
and controllable. Among the aspects that should improve the support
for global development there is the way global communities of
developers should be better supported.

This talk introduces our upstarting research in investigating the
possible shapes of communities for software development, and described
initial mechanisms aimed at uncovering and supporting communities
emerging during development. Such support is provided by Agile Service
Networks (ASNs), i.e. sets of people and information brought together
by the internet. Our vision is for ASNs to sustain communities by
supporting them explicitly through ad-hoc software services and
adaptation dynamics.

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                       Biography

Patricia Lago is associate professor at the VU University Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, leading the group on software and services. Her
research interests are in software- and service oriented architecture,
architectural knowledge management, empirical software engineering and
green IT. She has a PhD in Control and Computer Engineering from
Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She is chair of the IEEE/IFIP WICSA
Steering Committee, member of the IFIP 2.10 Working group on Software
Architecture, the IFIP 2.14 Working group on Services-based Systems,
and the Dutch Knowledge Network on Green Software. She is area editor
Service Orientation of the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier),
and member of the editorial board of Journal of Software - Evolution
and Process (Wiley) and Journal of Conference Papers in Computer
Science (Hindawi). She is member of ACM and IEEE. Homepage:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia
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Yours,
     Vadim.