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	Yunwen Ye, Ph.D.
	Senior Researcher, Key Technology Laboratory
	Software Research Associates, Inc.

Research Interests

Software Development as Knowledge Intensive and Collaborative Activity: The knowledge required for the creation of complex software systems is immense. Given the limitations of human memory, learning capability, and time dedicated to learning, few developers, if any, have all the knowledge needed in their own heads. The knowledge is distributed between the developer and the external world, and the development of a software system requires that a software developer not only fully utilize the knowledge in the head but also exert his or her knowing capability—the ability to access and learn from various knowledge resources in the world—in the context of development.
User Participative System: The success of user participative systems such as Web 2.0 systems depends not only on technical decisions but also on social considerations. It is imperative to take a socio-technical perspective to approach the design and development of sustainable user participative systems. Focusing on the interaction and inter-relatedness of technical aspects and social aspects, my research aims to establish new design approaches and principles for user participative systems. We have been developing frameworks for understanding and measuring community activiness, and have applied those frameworks to analyze open source communities and enterprise knowledge-sharing communities, to identify factors that prohibit or promote user participation.
Information-Enriched Workspace: Easy access to external information is essential to the performance of many information-intensive activities conducted in computer application systems. However, information repository systems that support the retrieval of external information are often researched as a self-contained problem with no consideration of the context where the information is applied. Information-enriched workspaces integrate the process of retrieving information from information repository systems and the process of applying information in computer application systems. In an information-enriched workspace, users can immediately access the information contextualized to their current task and background knowledge.

Recent Events

Program Committee, 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2011), Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2011, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Program Committee, 3rd International Symposium on End-User Development, June 7 - 10, 2011, Torre Canne, Italy
Program Co-Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation (SUITE2011) (an ICSE2011 workshop), Waikiki, Honolulu, 2011
Technical Seminar, Applying Search Engine Technologies to Sofware Development (in Japanese) Oct. 5, 2010, Tokyo, Japan
Program Committee, 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2010), Sept. 12-18, 2010, Timisoara, Romania
Program Committee, International Workshop on Software Product Management, Sept. 27, 2010, Sydney, Australia
Program Co-Chair, Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation(SUITE2010) (an ICSE2010 workshop), May 1, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

Recent Publications (full list)

Yunwen Ye, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto and Kouichi Kishida, "Through the Looking Glass of Immaterial Labor", in Proceedings of Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, Santa Fe, NM, pp. 433-437, 2010.
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yunwen Ye and Yasuhiro Yamamoto, "Supporting Expertise Communication in Developer-Centered Collaborative Software Development Environments", in A. Finkelstein, J. Grundyet al (eds.): Collaborative Software Engineering, Springler-Verlag, pp. 152-169, 2010.
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yunwen Ye, Yasuhiro Yamamoto and Kazushi Nishimoto, "Designing Interaction Channels for Services", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Service Innovation Design Conference (ISIDC2010), Hakodate, Japan, pp.149-154, 2010.
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yunwen Ye and Yasuhiro Yamamoto, "Comparison of Coordination Communication and Expertise Communication in Software Development: Motives, Characteristics, and Needs", in K. Nakakoji, Y. Murakami, E. McCready (Eds.) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, LNAI6284, pp.147-155, 2010. (A revised version of the KCSD2009 paper)
Gerhard Fischer, Kumiyo Nakakoji and Yunwen Ye, "Metadesign: Guidelines for Supporting Domain Experts in Software Development", IEEE Software Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 37-44, 2009.
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yunwen Ye and Yasuhiro Yamamoto, "Interaction Design for Supporting Knowledge Communication in Software Development". in Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2009), Takamatsu, Japan, 2009. (in Japanese)
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yunwen Ye and Yasuhiro Yamamoto, "Comparison of Coordination Communication and Expertise Communication in Software Development: Their Motives, Characteristics and Needs", in Y. Ye and M. Ohira (eds.): Proceedings of JSAI-isAI2009 Workshop on Supporting Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development (KCSD2009), Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence: Tokyo, pp. 112-122, 2009.
Yunwen Ye. "Peer to Peer Support for the Reuse of Open Source Software Libraries", in Proceedings of IEEE 2009 International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI2009), Las Vegas, NV, pp. 284-289, 2009.
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