Current Courses

• CIS 350, Telecommunications and Networking: at 2:00-2:50pm on MWF, in 38 Rockwell Hall.  As materials are made ready they will be posted to the Web.

• CIS 620, IT Communications Infrastructure (Networking): at 3:00-3:50pm on MWF, in 38 Rockwell Hall.  As materials are made ready they will be posted to the Web.

• Office Hours: MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm, and as arranged.

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University (1999)

• M.S. Computer Science, Andrews University (1988)

• B.A. Psychology, Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists (1984)

Research

• Software engineering, including IS development and systems analysis & design

• The software development process

• Business and system modeling

• Object-oriented technology

• Computer networking

• Process improvement

• Project management (both software and non-software projects)

Publications

• Vijayasarathy, Leo; & Turk, Dan.  (to appear).  "Agile Software Development: A Survey of Early Adopters," accepted for publication by the Journal of Information Technology Management, 2008 Mar 18.

• Turk, Daniel; France, Robert; & Rumpe, Bernhard. (2005), "Assumptions Underlying Agile Software-Development Processes." Journal of Database Management, 16:4 (October-December), 2005, pp. 62-87.

• Turk, Daniel; & Bausch, Jonathan. (2005), "Virtual Linux Servers Under z/VM: Security, Performance, and Administration Issues." IBM Systems Journal, 44:2 (May), 2005, pp. 341-351.

• Irwin, Gretchen; & Turk, Daniel. (2005). "An Ontological Analysis of Use Case Modeling Grammar." Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 6:1 (January), 2005, pp. 1-36.

• Hayne, Stephen; Smith, C.A.P.; & Turk, Dan. (2003). “The Effectiveness of Groups Recognizing Patterns.” International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 59, 2003, pp. 523-543.

• France, Robert; Ghosh, Sudipto; & Turk, Daniel. (2003). “Supporting Effective Software Modeling.” L’Objet., 9:4, 2003, pp. 11-29. Revised from 2001 OOIS conference paper, “Towards a Model-Driven Approach to Reuse.”

• Bandi, Rajendra; Vaishnavi, Vijay; & Turk, Daniel. (2003). “Using Object-Oriented Design Complexity Metrics to Predict Maintenance Performance.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 23:1 (January), 2003, p. 77-87.

• Robey, Daniel; Turk, Daniel; & Welke, Richard. (2001). “Traditional, Iterative, and Component-Based Development: A Social Analysis of Software Development Paradigms.” Information Technology & Management, 2:1 (January), 2001, p. 53-70.

• Keil, Mark; Wallace, Linda; Turk, Dan; Dixon-Randall, Gayle; & Nulden, Urban. (2000). “An Investigation of Risk Perception and Risk Propensity on the Decision to Continue a Software Development Project”. The Journal of Systems and Software, 53:2 (August 31), 2000, p. 145-158.

Proceedings

• Turk, Dan; Vijayasarathy, Leo; & Clark, Jon. (2006). “An Empirical Investigation of
  Models vs Prototypes in Systems Development.” In the Proceedings of the 12th Americas Conference
  on Information Systems (AMCIS’06), Acapulco, MEXICO, Aug 4-6, 2006, pp. 2902-3912. Presented paper at
  conference.

• Vijayasarathy, Leo; Clark, Jon; & Turk, Daniel. (2005). “Use of Models in Programming: A
  Preliminary Investigation.” In the Proceedings of ISOneWorld 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Mar
  30 – Apr 1, 2005. Presented by Jon Clark & Leo Vijayasarathy. I did not attend the conference.

• Irwin, Gretchen; Turk, Daniel. (2004). "An Ontological Evaluation of Use Case Grammar." In the Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’04), New York, New York, USA, Aug 6-8, 2004, USA, pp. 1694-1704. Paper not presented.

• Turk, Daniel; Vijayasarathy, Leo; & Clark, Jon. (2003). “The Value of Conceptual Modeling in Database Development: An Experimental Investigation.” 8th CAiSE/IFIP 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD), June 16 & 17, 2003, Velden, AUSTRIA. Proceedings not published.

• Turk, Daniel; Vijayasarathy, Leo; & Clark, Jon. (2003). “Assessing the Value of Modeling in Systems Development: A Research Agenda.” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, April 4-6, 2003, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. Presented by Jon Clark.

• Turk, Dan; France, Robert; & Rumpe, Bernhard. (2002). “Limitations of Agile Software Processes.” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, p. 43-46, May 26-29, 2002, Alghero, Sardinia, ITALY. Presented by Bernhard Rumpe.

• France, Robert; Ghosh, Sudipto; & Turk, Daniel. (2001). “Towards a Model-Driven Approach to Reuse.” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS), August 27-29, 2001, Calgary, CANADA, pp. 181-190. Presented by Robert France; I did not attend the conference.

• Turk, Dan; & Vaishnavi, Vijay. (2000). “Software Process Models are Software Too: A Domain Class Model for Software Process Models.” Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association 2000 International Conference (IRMA 2000), May 20-24, 2000, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, pp. 548-550. Presented paper at conference.

• Turk, Dan. (1999). “Mapping From an OO Design To a Non-OO Implementation: A Classroom Perspective.” Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA’99) Educator’s Symposium, November 1-5, 1999, Denver, Colorado, USA. Presented paper at conference.

• Turk, Dan; & Vaishnavi, Vijay. (1999). “Problem and Solution Frameworks for Software Development Process Modeling.” Proceedings of the Fifth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’99), Aug 13-15, 1999, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 770-772. Presented paper at conference.

• Turk, Dan; & Vaishanvi, Vijay. (1998). "Process Modelers Need Models Too." In the Proceedings of the Association for Information Systems' Fourth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AIS'98), Baltimore, MD, Aug 16, 1998, 900-902. Presented paper at conference.

• Turk, Dan; & Kumar, Kuldeep. (1997). “An Integrated Framework for ISD Process Improvement: Moving Up the CMM Hierarchy.” Information Resources Management Association 1997 International Conference (IRMA’97), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 21, 1997. Presented paper at conference.

Interestss

• Runner - log of races and race PR's

• Hiker - Colorado 14ers hiked and a listing/rankings

• Hiker - Other hikes