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SOFTWARE INDUSTRY CENTER
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 
EST. 2001
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JAMES HERBSLEB, DIRECTOR
http://swic.cs.cmu.edu/
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The Software Industry Center conducts research
on emerging trends in the economics, technology,
and management of the global software industry.
Although the Center is housed administratively
in CMU's School of Computer Science, it represents
a much broader partnership including faculty
from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public
Policy and Management and the Tepper School
of Business. Academic affiliates also include
faculty carrying out relevant research at
other institutions, including MIT Sloan School,
Harvard Business School, and the School of
Engineering at Stanford University.
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The Center's approach is characterized
by direct observation and active collaboration
with industry partners, who benefit directly
from the Center's research, which is designed
for immediate impact and to advance the state
of knowledge. In turn, industry partners provide
financial support, access to key data, and advice
about the issues they face.
Research at the Center will focus
on important, poorly understood features of
software value chains. This area of study has
grown increasingly complex as new kinds of players
(e.g., open source communities and end-user
programmers) enter value chains; diversity of
software services becomes increasingly important;
concerns are raised about global properties
such as security and reliability; and technical
decisions are constrained by legal, policy,
and economic considerations.
The Center's research is focused
on areas of critical importance to industry.
For example, Open Source in Software Value Chains
looks at the complex open source ecologies that
emerge as business models proliferate, and the
opportunities and risks inherent in the array
of new types of value relationships. Field studies
on Technical and Organizational Interfaces uncover
the principles that describe how technical dependencies
generate dependencies among development tasks.
Additional research areas addressed by Center
faculty include global quality attributes across
value chains, technical decision-making in value
chain contexts, and the use of IT to coordinate
software design and development over distance.
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