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  • A critical look at open source
    Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)
    In recent years, open source software - more properly, free and open source software - has emerged as one popular solution to the so-called "software crisis". Advocates regard F/OSS as an agile, practice-led initiative ...
  • Developing a mediation framework for context-aware applications : an exploratory action research approach
    Olsson, Carl Magnus (University of Limerick, 2011)
    This thesis takes an exploratory approach to the study of context-aware applications. Such applications use physical conditions from sensors together with human factors such as social setting as cues for adapting in behavior ...
  • Developing an information systems infrastructure with open source software
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Kenny, Tony (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)
    Up to now, most open source software (OSS) deployments have been in invisible infrastructure applications running on back-office servers (GNU/Linux, Apache, and so on). Beaumont Hospital in Ireland recently started developing ...
  • An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies
    Fitzgerald, Brian (Elsevier Science, 1998)
    A postal survey was conducted to determine the following: the extent to which systems development methodologies are used in practice; the rating of their contribution to the development process; and the future trend in ...
  • Formalised systems development methodologies: a critical perspective
    Fitzgerald, Brian (Blackwell Publishing, 1996)
    Systems development issues occupy a position of central importance in the information systems field and, indeed, much has been prescribed in the quest for successful systems development. However, given the well-documented ...
  • A framework for analysing the evolution of the IS field - can IS become a stable discipline?
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Adam, Frédéric (1996)
    why this is the case, and puts forward a framework which has been developed to analyse the emergence of the IS field, its relationship with associated disciplines, and the problems it currently faces. These problems are ...
  • The future of IS: expansion or extinction?
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Adam, Frédéric (1996)
    What the future holds for the IS field is not all that clear. On the one hand, it could be argued that IS could become the primary organisational and management discipline, given the primacy of IS for such critical ...
  • Implementing an open source knowledge base
    Donnellan, Brian; Fitzgerald, Brian; Lake, Brian; Sturdy, John (IEEE Computer Society, 2005)
    The concept of knowledge bases originated in artificial intelligence as one side of expert systems-namely, the fundamental body of knowledge available to a domain. KBs are particularly appropriate in knowledge-intensive ...
  • An investigation of the use of methods within information systems development projects in Ireland
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Kiely, Gaye (City University of Hong Kong, 2005)
    The development of information services has always been and remains a volitile environment. Practitioners and researchers within the field of information systems development (ISD) have put forward a number of different ...
  • A longitudinal study of software process improvement
    Fitzgerald, Brian; O'Kane, Tom (IEEE Computer Society, 1999)
    Studying a software process improvement effort over time reveals the factors associated with its success. This case study shows how Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group progressed to CMM level 4, and examines what is ...
  • Multi-metaphor method: organizational metaphors in information systems development.
    Oates, Briony June; Fitzgerald, Brian (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2007)
    Conventional methods have been criticized for their positivist philosophy and for either ignoring the organizational context of information systems development (ISD) or using only a simplistic, machine-based conceptual ...
  • Outsourcing to an unknown workforce: exploring opensourcing as a global sourcing strategy
    Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
    This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy--opensourcing, as we term it here--whereby commercial companies and open source communities ...
  • The status of the IS field: historical perspective and practical orientation
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Adam, Frédéric (Professor Tom Wilson of the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, 2000)
    This paper provides a detailed assessment of the current status of the Information Systems (IS) field by tracing its historical evolution. It uses lessons drawn from the history of another social science, sociology, to ...
  • The transformation of open source software
    Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2006)
    A frequent characterization of open source software is the somewhat outdated, mythical one of a collective of supremely talented software hackers freely volunteering their services to produce uniformly high-quality software. ...
  • Two-stage offshoring: an investigation of the Irish bridge
    Holmstrom Olsson, Helena; Ó Conchúir, Eoin; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
    This paper investigates two-stage offshoring as experienced by the Irish sites of two large global companies, headquartered in the United States, with significant software development operations. As part of these companies, ...
  • Verification of mathematical design documents
    Liu, Zhiying (University of Limerick, 2011)
    The problem to be studied in this thesis is how to verify a set of mathematical design documents in the sense that if each component is implemented correctly, the whole system should work together harmoniously to satisfy ...
  • Web-based systems design: a study of contemporary practices and an explanatory framework based on “method-in-action”
    Lang, Michael; Fitzgerald, Brian (Springer, London, 2007)
    This paper reports the findings of a detailed study of Web-based systems design (WBSD) practices in Ireland based on data collected over a 3-year period (2002–2005), the objectives of which were to (1) contribute towards ...

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