In this article we describe our experiences with designing online auction software. We present a clientserver software model for conducting standard online English auctions. The model is based on an existing auction server developed at James Cook University called the "Research Auction Server" (RAS). RAS is used to perform both simulated and real auctions to gather data on the performance of ke...

Runtime environment of software are becoming more and more dynamic and changeful, while pervasive computing and web services further this situation. Software systems are not only becoming larger, more complex, and also more rigid, which make it difficult to evolve software. This paper focuses on online evolution, more exactly, how to make online evolution process convenient and smart, with help...

The concept of sustainable development has become an important objective of policy makers in the software industry. The most used definition of sustainability refers to dimensions of economic sustainability to ensure that software services can create economic value; technical sustainability that their technical assets actually enable the software services to cope with changes and evolution; env...

By using content analysis techniques to compare social construction of knowledge in online dialogues to concept maps generated to synthesize this knowledge construction, this study showed that concept maps are an effective tool to synthesize knowledge construction in online conferences. This finding was also supported by self-reported data in a moderator survey. Concept maps were also considere...