Selected Papers

    Below are links to a few papers that I thought might be of interest. Comments and reactions to the papers is always welcome. For more current thoughts, you might look at my blog, or at my research interests

    The papers below are grouped into two sets to assist you in navigation. The first set consist of html encoded documents that you can browse rather freely. The second set are postscript final forms of the document and they will be downloaded in the entirety before you can look at them with a postscript viewer, or save them to a file for later printing to a postscript printer.

    Papers in HTML Format

    The nature of the production process for the html papers is such that the easiest way to preserve your navigation options is to spawn a new viewer, which you may simply close when done.

    • Some Observations on the Next Generation Web is a paper that was written in preparation for an NSF meeing on Cape Cod in 2003 on the post digital library research agenda. It explores defintions, trends, technology and current status.
    • Standards for the Next Generation Web: Architectural Consierations is a paper delivered in Portugal in 2003 on the necessary standards for the next generation web and e-business.
    • The Current State of E-Businessis a paper that was written as the kick off to a seminar on E-Business delivered in Norway in 1999. It explores defintions, trends, technology and current status.
    • The Use of Peripheral Social Awareness Tools in Collaborative Authoring is a paper that explores how users can be made aware at a subtle level of the activities of others
    • Embodying Social Capital Facilitators in a Collaborative Authoring System is a paper presented at the Annual Conference of AIS in August of 1997. The paper examines the dimensions of support for social capital for collaboration software with an eye to the features that would support collaborative authoring.
    • Software to Aid Collaboration: Focus on Collaborative Authoring is a paper being developed in conjunction with the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The paper describes some of the features of collaboration software with an eye to the features that would support collaborative authoring. Keep in mind that the document made available here is a very rough draft. Comments are welcome.
    • The Structure of IT Standardization Is a paper that took almost two years to bring together. It was authored over the network with Steve Oksala or Unysis and Tony Rutkowski who was then with the Internet Society. It appeared in ACM Standardview in March of 1996. Some readers may be interested in reviewing the Correspondence on the paper which is also available.
    • Multi-level Navigation in Large Document Spaces is a paper presented at the First Annual Conference on Leveraging Cyberspace held in Palo Alto CA at Xerox Parc in October of 1996. Another version of the paper was presented at WebNet96, in San Francisco, in November of 1996. The paper describes some of the navigational features of CASCADE which is dealt with in more detail in the research panels.
    • A Data Interchange Reference Model is the original version of a paper which appeared in IEEE Computer in August of 1996. It contains somewhat more detail than the published paper which had to be edited down for space reasons.
    • The Use of CASCADE in Standards Development looks at the Use of CASCADE to support the standards development process. At the current time, this paper exists only as a technical report. It will probably be combined with other research on CASCADE and prepared in abstracted form for publication.
    • Patterns for Human Computer Interaction is an aging paper on architectural patterns for software development. The paper has it origins in work begun in 1989 or engineering interfaces. It was given rebirth in the work that emerged out of study of Christpher Alexanders work on pattern languages in architecture. It was further spurred by a masters thesis that looked to provide preliminary empirical confirmation of the theoretical framework. It is again in stasis waiting for time to refocus energies on it. A postscript copy is also available.

    Selected Papers available in PDF

    These papers are conference proceedings or published papers in PostScript and PDF format. The PDF files are much smaller and as complete as the PS files. The file size, in 1,000s of bytes, is shown.

    • E-speak Revisited PDF (490K) is a paper that reflects on our experiences in developing an e-marketplace.
    • Shared Defect Detection PDF(2,190K) is a docytoral dissertation by Bordin Sapsomboon. Bordin used CASCADE to conduct asynchronous software inspection. The results of the study were quite positive and suggest that this kind of inspection can vastly improve defect detection over traditional methods.
    • The Document Processing Revolution PDF(66K) describes what I think is going to happen to documents occur over the next couple of decades. It includes the first refernce to "infoquakes". It was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Reference and Information Services Section, Australian Library and Information Association, Adelaide Australia in 1995.
    • Virtual Reality and Abstract Data: Virtualizing Information PDF(79K) is one of the key papers underlaying my work on visualizing information streams, it is old now -- it appeared in Volume 1, Issue 1 of Virtual Reality World in 1993.
    • Improving the Standardization Process PDF(89K) was a neat paper done with several graduate students that appeared in Brian Kahin book Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure.
    • Financing the Standards Development Process PDF(253K) is a paper with Martin Weiss on what standardization is all about. It also appeared in Brian Kahin book "Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure".
    • Selected Intellectual Property Issues in Standardization PDF(62K) was a paper that was written in 1994 and finally published in 1999. It laid a lot of ground work for other things Martin Weiss and I did, but what I think was profound about it was lost on the editors and reviewers of the two key journals -- but we can't complain--too much, they've been good to us many times.
    • People, Processes, Products, and Productivity PDF(79K) is a keynote address presented -- Edge International in Orlando Florida in May, 1992.

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