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Prof. John Noll

Santa Clara University

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Dr. John Noll
Adjunct Instructor
Computer Engineering Department
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053
mailto:jnoll@cse.scu.edu

Selected Publications

John Noll, ``Requirements Acquisition in Open Source Development: Firefox 2.0 ,'' To appear, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Open Source Systems, Milan, Italy, September 2007.
John Noll, ``Innovation in Open Source Software Projects: A Tale of Two Features,'' Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems, Limerick, Ireland, June 2007. (Pre-publication draft available as SCU Technical Report 2007-01-08C.)
Darren Atkinson, Daniel Weeks and John Noll, Tool Support for Iterative Process Modeling. Information and Software Technology, 49(5), May, 2007. (Online version available now.)
Walt Scacchi, Chris Jensen, John Noll, and Margaret Elliot, Multimodal Modeling, Analysis, and Validation of Open Source Software Development Processes. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), July, 2006.
Walt Scacchi, Chris Jensen, John Noll, and Margaret Elliot, Multi-Modal Modeling, Analysis, and Validation of Open Source Software Requirements Processes. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Open Source Systems, Genoa, Italy, July 2005. Voted Best Paper of the conference.
Darren C. Atkinson, Daniel C. Weeks, and John Noll, The Design of Evolutionary Process Modeling Languages. Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Korea, December 2004.
John Noll and Jigar Shah, Process State Inference for Support of Knowledge Intensive Work. Proceedings SEA '04, Cambridge, MA, USA, November, 2004.
John Noll, Flexible Process Enactment Using Low-Fidelity Models. Proceedings SEA '03, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, November, 2003.
Darren Atkinson and John Noll, Automated Checking of Software Process Models. Submitted to Software Process: Improvement and Practice.
Darren Atkinson and John Noll, Automated Validation and Verification of Software Process Models. Proceedings SEA '03, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, November, 2003.
John Noll and Bryce Billinger, Modeling Coordination as Resource Flow: An Object-Based Approach. Proceedings SEA '02, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
John Noll, Process Enactment in Virtual Software Organizations. Proceedings SERP '02, Las Vegas, NV, 2002.
John Noll and Walt Scacchi, Specifying Process-Oriented Hypertext for Organizational Computing. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 24:1, January, 2001. Special issue on Hypermedia Extensibility Mechanisms and Scripting Languages.
John Noll and Walt Scacchi, Supporting Software Development in Virtual Enterprises. Journal of Digital Information, 4:1, January, 1999.
Walt Scacchi and John Noll, Process-Driven Intranets: Life Cycle Support for Process Reengineering. IEEE Internet Computing, 1:5, September, 1997, 42--49.

Curriculum Vitae

Other Research Links

Innovation in OSS presentation.
IKE '08 Technical on Organizational Knowledge Engineering call for papers.
OSS '07 presentation.
MKIDS White Paper.

Courses

Some Useful Resources

UC Berkeley Dissertation Proposal Workshop site; advice on preparing a Ph.D. dissertation proposal.

Olin Shiver's dissertation advice; useful for master's theses as well.

A large collection of advice on writing research papers, proposals, theses, and dissertations.