Prof Ian Sommerville

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

ian.sommerville@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My principal research interests are in dependable socio-technical systems where I am interested in how human, social and organisational factors impact the dependability of complex systems. I am particularly interested in topics such as dependable system deployment, the dependability of inter-organisational systems and incorporating techniques of social analysis in systems engineering processes.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Academic Cloud computing research: five pitfalls and five opportunities

  Barker, A., Varghese, B., Stuart Ward, J. & Sommerville, I., 17 Jun 2014, 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'14). USENIX, 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  An elastic virtual infrastructure for research applications (ELVIRA)

  Voss, A., Barker, A. D., Asgari-Targhi, M., van Ballegooijen, A. & Sommerville, I., 25 Nov 2013, In: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications. 2, 11 p., 20.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Migrating software products to the cloud: An adaptive STS perspective.

  Werfs, M., Baxter, G., Allison, I. & Sommerville, I., 2013, In: Journal of International Technology and Information Management. 22, 3, p. 37-54

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Understanding Tradeoffs between Power Usage and Performance in a Virtualized Environment

  Sommerville, I. & Smith, J. W., 2013, Proc. 6th IEEE Int. Conf on Cloud Computing. IEEE Computer Society

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Information requirements for enterprise systems

  Sommerville, I., Lock, R. & Storer, T., 2012, Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. Development, Operation and Management. London: Springer

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Large-scale complex IT systems

  Sommerville, I., Cliff, D., Calinescu, R., Keen, J., Kelly, T., Kwiatkowska, M., McDermid, J. & Paige, R., Jul 2012, In: Communications of the ACM. 55, 7, p. 71-77 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Socio-technical systems engineering

  Baxter, G. & Sommerville, I., 2012, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. Taylor & Francis

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Supporting Cloud Adoption Decisions in the Enterprise

  Khajeh-Hosseini, A., Greenwood, D. S., Smith, J. W. & Sommerville, I., Apr 2012, In: Software: Practice and Experience. 42, 4, p. 447-465 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Management and Use of Social Network Sites in a Government Department

  Rooksby, J. R. N. & Sommerville, I., 2012, (Accepted/In press) In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise

  Sommerville, I., Khajeh-Hosseini, A., Bogaerts, J. & Teregowda, P., Jul 2011, Proceedings, 4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2011. IEEE Computer Society, p. 541-48 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

 

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