Education

• 2002-2008: Doctoral program at the Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp.

  Dissertation title: “The organizational adoption of open source server software: an information systems innovation perspective”, advisor: prof. dr. Jan Verelst.

  Abstract: In this dissertation, I determined which reasons influence the organizational adoption of open source server software (OSSS). This term is used to refer to open source software (OSS) that is mainly used for server-side applications. The theoretical foundation of this study consisted of the adoption of innovations literature. The research was conducted as a mixed methods study consisting of a sequential qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitative study had an exploratory nature and used the case study approach. The quantitative study had a confirmatory nature and was used to validate the findings from the qualitative by means of a large-scale survey. My main conclusion was that the frequently claimed advantages of OSSS does not have a decisive impact on the adoption of OSSS. Instead, my results indicated that the adoption of OSSS is primarily influenced by the knowledge available to organizations.

• 1997-2002: Commercial Engineer (CE) Management Information Systems, University of Antwerp (RUCA).

  Masters’s Thesis: “Analysis and design of an information system with a World Wide Web interface, including implementation in a university setting”, promoter: prof. dr. Jan Verelst.

Experience

• October 2008-present: Postdoctoral researcher (doctor assistent) at the Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp.
• October 2003-September 2008: Research and teaching assistant at the Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp.
• January 2003-September 2003: Research project: “Public availability of reliable financial statements and ownership and control data of Polish companies”, University of Antwerp (RUCA).
• November 2002-December 2002: Analysis of the web site of the University of Antwerp and the design of future enhancements-University of Antwerp (UFSIA).

Teaching

Teaching assigments

2009-2010

• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Security management
• Contemporary system development methods

2008-2009

• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Security management

2007-2008

• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Transport and Logistics Information Systems (M.Sc. in Transport and Maritime Management-ITMMA)

2006-2007

• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Contemporary system development methods
• The adoption of open source infrastructure software (UAMS-Master in e-Business)

2005-2006

• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Contemporary system development methods
• Object-oriented system development methods (UAMS-Master in e-Business)

2004-2005

• Management Information Systems-Partim Algorithms
• Systems design
• Systems analysis
• Technology and development of e-business systems

2003-2004

• Management Information Systems-Partim Algorithms
• Systems design
• Systems analysis 1
• Systems analysis 2
• Technology and development of e-business systems
• Business game (RUCA + UAMS)
• Transport and Logistics Information Systems (M.Sc. in Transport and Maritime Management-ITMMA)

2002-2003

• Business game (RUCA + UAMS)

Academic Services

Service to the University

• Representative of the Faculty of Applied Economics in the Board of the Association of Assistant and Supernumerary Academic Staff (VABAP) of the University of Antwerp (March 2007-present).
• Representative of the assistant academic staff in the board of the department of Management Information Systems (October 2005-September 2006).

Service to Academia

Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees

• Reviewer doctoral dissertation of Martti Karjalainen, University of Tampere, Finland (advisor: prof. Pertti Järvinen), 2010.

Conference activities

• Session chair at the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT2010), Athens, Greece, July 22-24, 2010.
• Program Committee member of the 1st International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation inEnterprise (ICITIE 2010), Athens, Greece, July 29-31, 2010.
• Program co-chair of the OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Notre Dame, Indiana, May 30, 2010 (collocated with the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems).
• Program Committee member of the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems(OSS2010), Notre Dame, Indiana, May 30-June 2, 2010.
• Program co-chair of the OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium, Skövde, Sweden, June 3, 2009 (collocated with the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems).
• Panel member Open Source in the Public Sector, 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference onOpen Source Systems (OSS 2009), Skövde, Sweden, June 4, 2009.
• Session chair at the 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2009), Skövde, Sweden, June 5, 2009.

Editor of Conference Proceedings

• Walt Scacchi, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst (editors), Proceedings of the OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Notre Dame, IN, May 30, 2010.
• Walt Scacchi, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst (editors), Proceedings of the OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium, Skövde, Sweden, June 3, 2009.

Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journals

• IEEE Software
• Information Systems Journal
• Information Systems Management
• Information and Software Technology
• International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance
• Software: Practice and Experience

Reviewer for Manuscripts in Edited Books

• Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices , S.K. Sowe, I. Stamelos and I. Samoladas (editors).
• Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives , K. St.Amant and B. Still (editors).

Reviewer of Conference Papers

• 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44).
• 1st International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation in Enterprise (ICITIE 2010).
• 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010).
• OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium (OSS2010DC).
• 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43).
• OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium (OSS2009DC).
• 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2009).
• 42st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42).
• 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008).
• 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41).

Service to the Community

Center for Training in Information and Communication Technology (CTICT)

• March 30-31, 2009 - 2-day training course on “Systems Design”, Cevora training center.
• October 24-25, 2006 - 2-day training course on “Operating Systems”, Cevora training center.
• March 14-15, 2006 - 2-day training course on “Operating Systems”, Cevora training center.
• November 8-9, 2005 - 2-day training course on “Operating Systems”, Cevora training center.
• June 1, 2005 - 1 day of 2-day training course on “Data analysis”, Cevora training center.
• October 20-21, 2004 - 2-day training course on “Operating Systems”, Cevora training center.
• September 2004 - Development of course syllabus “Operating Systems”, Cevora training center.

Press Communications

• Interviewed by Barbara Vandenbussche, Kwaliteitskrant, issue 1, February 9, 2009, Flemish Center for Quality Assurance (Vlaams Centrum voor Kwaliteitszorg).
• Interviewed by Brigitte Doucet, Datanews issue 21, June 6, 2008.
• Interviewed by Bruno Leijnse, Datanews issue 15, April 25, 2008.
• Interviewed by Dominique Deckmyn: IT Professional issue 44, April 9, 2008.
• Interviewed by Bruno Leijnse, Trends issue 12, March 20, 2008.

Grants

• Principle investigator of Small Project Special Research Fund University of Antwerp, of 6.000 EUR, for “A comparison of the explanatory power of three theoretical perspectives in the organizational adoption of knowledge-intensive information technology innovations (2010).

Conferences and Workshops

Academic Conferences and Workshops

• 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT — 1st InternationalConference on IT-enabled Innovation in Enterprise (ICITIE 2010), Athens, Greece, July 29-31, 2010.
• 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2010) , Athens, Greece, July 22-24, 2010.
• 6th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010) , Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, May 30-June 2, 2010.
• OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium , Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, May 30, 2010.
• 5th International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability - Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2009) , June, 8-9, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009) , Skövde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009.
• OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium , Skövde, Sweden, June 3, 2009.
• Workshop on Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software — Open Source Software and Product Lines (QACOS-OSSPL09) , Skövde, Sweden, June 6, 2009.
• 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008) , Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008.
• 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2007) , Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.
• 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007) , Barcelona, Spain, July 22-25, 2007.
• The First International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing (ACT4SOC) , Barcelona, Spain, July 22, 2007.
• 12th Conference of the Association of Information and Management (AIM2007) , Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2007.
• 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2006) , Acapulco, Mexico, August 4-6, 2006.
• The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2006) , Como, Italy, June 8-10, 2006.
• tOSSad OSS2006 Workshop , Towards Open Source Software Adoption Educational, Public, Legal, and Usability Practices, Como, Italy, June 10, 2006.
• Calibre Developer’s Room, Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting(FOSDEM) 2006, Brussels, Belgium, February 25, 2006.
• The First International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2005) , Genova, Italy, July 11-15, 2005.
• Collaboration, Conflict and Control: The 4th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering , 26^th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 2004.
• Workshop on Real-Life Applications of Metaheuristics , Universiteit Antwerpen, December 18-19, 2003.
• 17th Conference on Quantitative Methods for Decision Making (ORBEL 17) , SOGESCI-BVWB, Brussels, January 23-24, 2003.

Professional Workshops and Seminars

• OpenForum Europe 2010 Summit: Openness at the heart of the EU Digital Agenda , Brussels, June 10 2010.
• Hands-on Labs Open Source, Schoten, November 13, 2009.
• Hands-on Labs Open Source, Schoten, February 17, 2009.
• “Openbron-of eigendomssoftware? Geen enkele religie is heilig, maar een goede voorbereiding maaktkiezen eenvoudiger (Open Source or Proprietary Software? No religion is sacred, but a goodpreparation makes choosing easier)”, Antwerp Digital Mainport (ADM) Info Session, February 28, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.
• SAI Workshop: ICT and Software Projectmanagement, Brussels, February 4, 2004.
• SAI Workshop: Enterprise Content Management - Naar een geïntegreerd beheer vanongestructureerde informatie, Antwerp, October 22, 2003.
• SAI Workshop: ICT Business Value - On the Economics of Information / Communication Systems& Infrastructures, prof.dr. Guido Dedene (KU Leuven), St.-Martens Latem, September 17, 2003.
• E-business chair 2003: Leadership in the knowledge society - prof. dr. Albert Angehrn (INSEAD), Antwerpen, March 26, 2003.

Lectures

Invited Talks

• Kris Ven, Factors Affecting the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software in BelgianOrganizations, Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, October 4, 2007.

Conferences and Workshops

• Kris Ven, Benazeer Shahzada MD, and Jan Verelst, Balancing Modularity and Knowledge in Designing Agile Organizations: The Case of Outsourcing, 1st International Multi-Conference onInnovative Developments in ICT — 1st International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation inEnterprise (ICITIE 2010), July 29-31, 2010, Athens, Greece.
• Kris Ven, David Bellens, Philip Huysmans, Dieter Van Nuffel, Towards the Automatic Identification of Violations to the Normalized Systems Design Theorems, 5th International Conference on Softwareand Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2010), July 22-24, 2010, Athens, Greece.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software, 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010), May 30-June 2, 2010, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Adoption of DEMO: A Research Agenda, 5th International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability - Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2009), June, 8-9, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, Leveraging Internal Knowledge in Open Source Software Quality Assessment, workshop on Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software — Open Source Software and Product Lines (QACOS-OSSPL09), Skövde, Sweden, June 6, 2009.
• Kris Ven, Open Source in the Belgian Public Sector, Panel on Open Source in the Public Sector, 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009), Skövde, Sweden, June 4, 2009.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Importance of External Support in the Adoption of Open Source Server Software, 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009), Skövde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software: A Quantitative Study, 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008), Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008.
• Kris Ven, Partial Least Squares Analysis in Information Systems: Modeling the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software, poster presented at StatUA Afternoon, February 14, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Kris Ven, Philip Huysmans and Jan Verelst, The Adoption of Open Source Desktop Software in a Large Public Administration, 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2007), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.
• Herwig Mannaert, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Designing a Generic and Evolvable Software Architecture for Service Oriented Computing, First International Workshop on Architectures,Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing (ACT4SOC), Barcelona, Spain, July 22, 2007.
• Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, SOA and Standardized Business Processes: a Future for Open Source Services, 12th Conference of the Association of Informationand Management (AIM2007), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2007.
• Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, On the Relationship between Commoditization and Open Source Software, 12th Conference of the Association of Information and Management(AIM2007), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2007.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Idealism vs. Pragmatism: Investigating the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 4-6, 2006.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software by Belgian Organizations, The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2006), Como, Italy, June 8-10, 2006.
• Kris Ven, Dieter Van Nuffel and Jan Verelst, The Introduction of OpenOffice.org in the Brussels Public Administration, The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2006), Como, Italy, June 8-10, 2006.
• Herwig Mannaert, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Participation of Independent Software Vendors in Free and Open Source Software Projects, Calibre Developer’s Room, Free and Open Source SoftwareDevelopers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2006, Brussels, Belgium, February 25, 2006.
• Kris Ven, Kenneth Sörensen, Jan Verelst and Marc Sevaux, Stimulating Collaborative Development in Operations Research with libOR, The First International Conference on Open Source Systems, Genova, Italy, July 11-15, 2005.
• Kenneth Sörensen, Kris Ven, Marc Seveaux en Jan Verelst, libOR - library of OR data sets, Workshop on Real-Life Applications of Metaheuristics, Universiteit Antwerpen, December 18-19, 2003.
• Ira Marivoet, Kenneth Sörensen, Johan Springael, Kris Ven, and Jan Verelst, Feasibility of the use of ontologies for university timetabling and other OR-related problems, 17th Conference onQuantitative Methods for Decision Making (ORBEL 17), SOGESCI-BVWB, Brussels, January 23-24, 2003.

Professional Workshops and Seminars

• “Het Gebruik van Externe Ondersteuning voor Open Source Software (The Use of External Supportfor Open Source Software)”, Hands-on Labs Open Source, Schoten, November 13, 2009.
• “Waarom kiezen Vlaamse organisaties voor Open Source Software? (Why do Flemish organizationschoose Open Source Software?)”, Hands-on Labs Open Source, Schoten, February 17, 2009.
• “De Organisatorische Adoptie van Open Source Server Software door Vlaamse Organisaties(The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software by Flemish Organizations)”, onderzoeksseminarie, Universiteit Antwerpen, December 3, 2008.
• Co-presenter and panel member “Openbron-of eigendomssoftware? Geen enkele religie is heilig,maar een goede voorbereiding maakt kiezen eenvoudiger (Open Source or Proprietary Software?No religion is sacred, but a good preparation makes choosing easier)”, Antwerp Digital Mainport (ADM) Info Session, February 28, 2008, Brussels, Belgium.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven, and Jan Verelst, Using the DEMO Methodology for Modeling Open Source Software Development Processes, Information and Software Technology, 52(6):656-671, 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.02.002 [ISI 2008 Impact factor: 1.200, ranked 37/86]
• Benazeer Shahzada, Verelst Jan, van Grembergen Wim, Mannaert Herwig, and Ven Kris, Does external knowledge enhance competitive advantage? A research agenda on it outsourcing practices, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 8(1):54-68, 2009.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Impact of Ideology on the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, Journal of Database Management, 19(2):58-72, 2008. [ISI 2008 Impact factor: 2.000, ranked 18/86] [ Download: from publisher’s website  ]
• Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, Should You Adopt Open Source Software?, IEEESoftware, 25(3):54-59, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.73 [ISI 2008 Impact factor: 2.099, ranked 15/86]
• Kris Ven and Herwig Mannaert, Challenges and Strategies in the Use of Open Source Software by Independent Software Vendors, Information and Software Technology, 50(9/10):991-1002, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.09.001 [ISI 2008 Impact factor: 1.200, ranked 37/86]
• Kris Ven, Kenneth Sörensen, Jan Verelst and Marc Sevaux, Stimulating Information Sharing, Collaboration and Learning in Operations Research with libOR, International Journal on DigitalLibraries, 8(2):79-90, 2008. DOI: 10.1007/s00799-007-0032-7
• Kris Ven, Steven Dehaes, Wim Van Grembergen and Jan Verelst, Using COBIT 4.1 to Guide the Adoption and Implementation of Open Source Software, Information Systems Control Journal, 3:31-35, 2008.
• Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Reasons for the Non-adoption of OpenOffice.org in a Data-intensive Public Administration, First Monday, 13(10), 2008. [ View online: from publisher’s website  ]

Articles in National Journals

• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Waarom Kiezen Belgische Organisaties voor Openbron?, IT Professional, 3(53):16-17, August 27, 2008.
• Kris Ven, Betere Beveiliging met Security Enhanced Linux, Informatie, 47(4):46-51, May 2005.
• Kris Ven, De Tien Criteria voor Open-sourcesoftware, Informatie, 46(5):23-25, June 2004.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, De Risico’s van het Gebruik, Informatie, 46(5):31-35, June 2004.

Conference Proceedings with Peer Review

• Kris Ven, Dieter Van Nuffel, David Bellens, Philip Huysmans, The Automatic Discovery of Violations to the Normalized Systems Design Theorems: A Feasibility Study, In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2010), August 22-27, 2010, Nice, France (forthcoming). [Acceptance rate: 30%]
• Dieter Van Nuffel, Philip Huysmans, David Bellens, Kris Ven, Translating Ontological Business Transactions into Evolvable Information Systems, In: Proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2010), August 22-27, 2010, Nice, France (forthcoming). [Acceptance rate: 30%]
• Kris Ven, Benazeer Shahzada MD, and Jan Verelst, Balancing Modularity and Knowledge in Designing Agile Organizations: The Case of Outsourcing, In: Boris Shishkov, George A. Tsihrintzis and Maria Virvou (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Conference on InnovativeDevelopments in ICT — 1st International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation in Enterprise(ICITIE 2010), July 29-31, 2010, Athens, Greece, pp. 189-194, SciTePress, Portugal. [Acceptance rate: 30%].
• Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven, and Jan Verelst, Designing for Innovation: Using Enterprise Ontology Theory to Improve Business-IT Alignment, In: Boris Shishkov, George A. Tsihrintzis and Maria Virvou (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developmentsin ICT — 1st International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation in Enterprise (ICITIE 2010), July 29-31, 2010, Athens, Greece, pp. 177-186, SciTePress, Portugal. [Acceptance rate: 30%].
• Philip Huysmans, David Bellens, Dieter Van Nuffel, and Kris Ven, Designing Enterprise Architectures Based On Systems Theoretic Stability, In: David Marca, Boris Shishkov and Marten Van Sinderen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Business (ICE-B 2010), July 26-28, 2010, Athens, Greece, pp. 157-162, SciTePress, Portugal. [Acceptance rate: 29%].
• Kris Ven, David Bellens, Philip Huysmans, Dieter Van Nuffel, Towards the Automatic Identification of Violations to the Normalized Systems Design Theorems, In: José Cordeiro, Maria Virvou and Boris Shishkov (Eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and DataTechnologies (ICSOFT 2010), July 22-24, 2010, Athens, Greece, pp. 23-28, SciTePress, Portugal. [Acceptance rate: 31%].
• Dieter Van Nuffel, Philip Huysmans, David Bellens and Kris Ven, Towards Deterministically Constructing Organizations Based on the Normalized Systems Approach, In: Robert Winter, J. Leon Zhao, and Stephan Aier (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6105, Global Perspectives on Design Science Research, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference onDesign Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2010), June 4-5, 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Springer, Berlin, pp. 242-257. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13335-0_17 [Acceptance rate: 44%]
• Philip Huysmans, David Bellens, Dieter Van Nuffel and Kris Ven, Aligning the Constructs of Enterprise Ontology and Normalized Systems, In: Antonia Albani and Jan L. G. Dietz (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 49, Advances in Enterprise Engineering IV, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability— Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2010), June 4-5, 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13048-9_1 [Acceptance rate: 46%]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, A Field Study on the Barriers in the Assimilation of Open Source Server Software, In: Pär Ågerfalk and Cornelia Boldyreff and Jesús M. González-Barahona and Gregory R. Madey and John Noll (Eds.) Open Source Software: New Horizons, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010), Notre Dame, IN, USA, May 30-June 2, 2010, Volume 319 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 281-293. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13244-5_22 [Acceptance rate: 45%]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Adoption of DEMO: A Research Agenda, In: Antonia Albani, Joseph Barjis and Jan L.G. Dietz (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 34, Advances in Enterprise Engineering III, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability - Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2009), June, 8-9, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Springer, Berlin, pp. 157-171. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01915-9_12 [Acceptance rate: 42%]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Importance of External Support in the Adoption of Open Source Server Software, In: Cornelia Boldyreff, Kevin Crowston, Björn Lundell and Anthony I. Wasserman (Eds.) Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting, Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009), Skövde, Sweden, June 3-6, 2009, Volume 299 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, Berlin, pp. 116-128. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_12 [Acceptance rate: 50%]
• Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, Leveraging Internal Knowledge in Open Source Software Quality Assessment, In: Muhammad Ali Babar, Björn Lundell and Frank van der Linden (eds.) QACOS-OSSPL 2009: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software (QACOS) and Open Source Software and Product Lines (OSSPL), Skövde, Sweden, June 6, 2009, Skövde University Studies in Informatics 2009:2, Skövde University, Skövde, pp. 28-29.
• Herwig Mannaert, Jan Verelst and Kris Ven, Design Theorems for Avoiding Combinatorial Effects in Integrating Open Source Software Components in Software Product Lines, In: Muhammad Ali Babar, Björn Lundell and Frank van der Linden (eds.) QACOS-OSSPL 2009: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software (QACOS) and Open Source Software and Product Lines (OSSPL), Skövde, Sweden, June 6, 2009, Skövde University Studies in Informatics 2009:2, Skövde University, Skövde, pp. 20-27.
• Herwig Mannaert, Jan Verelst and Kris Ven, Exploring the Concept of Systems Theoretic Stability as a Starting Point for a Unified Theory on Software Engineering, In: Herwig Mannaert, Tadashi Ohta, Cosmin Dini and Robert Pellerin (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conferenceon Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2008), Sliema, Malta, October 26-31, 2008, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2008, pp. 360-366. DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2008.63 [Acceptance rate: 30%] [  Download: final version  ]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software: A Quantitative Study, In: Willie Golden, Tom Acton, Kieran Conboy, Hans van der Heijden and Virpi Tuunainen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2008), Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008 (CDROM). [Acceptance rate: 37%]
• Herwig Mannaert, Jan Verelst and Kris Ven, Exploring Concepts for Deterministic Software Engineering: Service Interfaces, Pattern Expansion, and Stability, In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, French Riviera, France, August 25-31, 2007, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA. DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2007.32 [Acceptance rate: 32%] [ Download: final version  ]
• Kris Ven, Philip Huysmans and Jan Verelst, The Adoption of Open Source Desktop Software in a Large Public Administration, In: Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on InformationSystems (AMCIS2007), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007. [Acceptance rate: 61%]
• Herwig Mannaert, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Designing a Generic and Evolvable Software Architecture for Service Oriented Computing, In: Marten van Sinderen (Ed.) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service OrientedComputing (ACT4SOC), July 22, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, INSTICC Press, Portugal, 2007, pp. 9-18. [Acceptance rate: 35%]
• Philip Huysmans, Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, SOA and Standardized Business Processes: a Future for Open Source Services, In: Moez Limayem and Yves Pigneur (editors), Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Association of Information and Management (AIM2007), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2007.
• Kris Ven, Jan Verelst and Herwig Mannaert, On the Relationship between Commoditization and Open Source Software, In: Moez Limayem and Yves Pigneur (editors), Proceedings of the 12thConference of the Association of Information and Management (AIM2007), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2007.
• Herwig Mannaert, Jan Verelst and Kris Ven, Towards Rules and Laws for Software Factories and Evolvability: A Case-Driven Approach, In: Proceedings of the International Conference onSoftware Engineering Advances (ICSEA’06), Tahiti, French Polynesia, October 29-November 3, 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA. DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2006.73 [Acceptance rate: 37%] [ Download: final version  ]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Idealism vs. Pragmatism: Investigating the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, In: Nicolas C. Romano (editor), Proceedings of the 12th AmericasConference on Information Systems (AMCIS2006), Acapulco, Mexico, August 4-6, 2006, pp. 789-796. [Acceptance rate: 60%] [ Download: final version  ]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software by Belgian Organizations, In: Ernesto Damiani, Brian Fitzgerald, Walt Scacchi, Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi (editors), IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 203, Open Source Systems (IFIP Working Group 2.13 Foundation Conference on Open Source Software, June 8-10, 2006, Como, Italy), pp. 111-122, Springer, Boston, 2006. DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_11 [Acceptance rate: 36%] [ Download:  final version  ]
• Kris Ven, Dieter Van Nuffel and Jan Verelst, The Introduction of OpenOffice.org in the Brussels Public Administration, In: Ernesto Damiani, Brian Fitzgerald, Walt Scacchi, Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi (editors), IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 203, Open Source Systems (IFIP Working Group 2.13 Foundation Conference on Open Source Software, June 8-10, 2006, Como, Italy), pp. 123-134, Springer, Boston, 2006. DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_12 [Acceptance rate: 36%] [ Download:  final version  ]
• Kris Ven, Kenneth Sörensen, Jan Verelst and Marc Sevaux, Stimulating Collaborative Development in Operations Research with libOR, In: Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi (editors), Proceedings ofthe First International Conference on Open Source Systems, pp. 71-75, Genova, Italy, July 11-15, 2005. [Acceptance rate: 39%] [ Download: final version ]
• Herwig Mannaert and Kris Ven, The Use of Open Source Software Platforms by Independent Software Vendors: Issues and Opportunities, In: Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam, Karim Lakhani and Walt Scacchi (editors), Open Source Application Spaces: Proceedings ofthe Fifth Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2005), pp. 35-38, St. Louis, Missouri, May 17, 2005. DOI: 10.1145/1083258.1083266 [ Download: final version ]
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, Control objectives in open source projects, In: Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam and Karim Lakhani (editors), Collaboration, Conflict and Control:Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2004), pp. 100-104, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 2004.

Book Chapters with Peer Review

• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Impact of Ideology on the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, In: Keng Siau and John Erickson (editors), Principle Advancements in DatabaseManagement Technologies: New Applications and Frameworks, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2010, pp. 160-175.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Impact of Ideology on the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, In: Pierre F. Tiako (editor), Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, andApplications, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2009, pp. 1849-1864.
• Kris Ven, Dieter Van Nuffel and Jan Verelst, The Migration of Public Administrations Towards Open Source Desktop Software: Recommendations from Research and Validation through a Case Study, In: Pierre F. Tiako (editor), Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, andApplications, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2009, pp. 1559-1576.
• Kris Ven and Jan Verelst, The Impact of Ideology on the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software, In: Edward J. Szewczak (editor), Selected Readings on the Human Side of InformationTechnology, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2008, pp. 349-364.
• Kris Ven, Dieter Van Nuffel and Jan Verelst, The Migration of Public Administrations towards Open Source Desktop Software: Recommendations from Research and Validation through a Case Study, In: Sulayman K. Sowe, Dr. Ioannis Stamelos and Ioannis Samoladas (editors), EmergingFree and Open Source Software Practices, IGI Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2007, pp. 191-214.

Monographs

• Kris Ven, The Organizational Adoption of Open Source Server Software: An Information SystemsInnovation Perspective, doctoral dissertation, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2008, 381 pages.

Edited Books

• Walt Scacchi, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst (editors), Proceedings of the OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Notre Dame, IN, May 30, 2010, Universitas, Antwerp, 114 pages.
• Walt Scacchi, Kris Ven and Jan Verelst (editors), Proceedings of the OSS 2009 Doctoral Consortium, Skövde, Sweden, June 3, 2009, Universitas, Antwerp, 130 pages.