355 citations · 881 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for
16 papers
Designing for the Don't Cares: A story about a sociotechnical system
Ian Sommerville
This article discusses the difficulties that arose when attempting to specify and design a large scale digital learning environment for Scottish schools. This had a potential user…
Academic Cloud Computing Research: Five Pitfalls and Five Opportunities
Adam Barker, Blesson Varghese, Jonathan Stuart Ward +1
This discussion paper argues that there are five fundamental pitfalls, which can restrict academics from conducting cloud computing research at the infrastructure level, which is c…
Information requirements for enterprise systems
Ian Sommerville, Russell Lock, Tim Storer
In this paper, we discuss an approach to system requirements engineering, which is based on using models of the responsibilities assigned to agents in a multi-agency system of syst…
Teaching cloud computing: a software engineering perspective
Ian Sommerville
This short papers discusses the issues of teaching cloud computing from a software engineering rather than a business perspective. It discusses what topics might be covered in a se…
CloudMonitor: Profiling Power Usage
James William Smith, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Jonathan Stuart Ward +1
In Cloud Computing platforms the addition of hardware monitoring devices to gather power usage data can be impractical or uneconomical due to the large number of machines to be met…
The Management and Use of Social Network Sites in a Government Department
John Rooksby, Ian Sommerville
In this paper we report findings from a study of social network site use in a UK Government department. We have investigated this from a managerial, organisational perspective. We…