G.R. Gangadharan

Assistant Professor
Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT)
(Established by the Reserve Bank of India)
Castle Hills, Road No.1,
Masab Tank, Hyderabad, INDIA -500057.

Tel.  00 91 40 2353 4981      
Fax  00 91 40 2353 5157

Email grgangadharan[at]idrbt[dot]ac[dot]in
         geeyaar[at]gmail[dot]com

Biography

G.R. Gangadharan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT). Prior to joining in IDRBT, he worked as a researcher at IBM Research India from November 2010 to August 2011. His research interests are mainly located on the interface between technological and business perspectives. He has received Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technology (2008) from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy and European University Association. He holds an M.S. in Information Technology (2004) from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy and an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1999) from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. He is a member of IEEE.

Areas of Research Interests 

Internet Technologies (Service Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing)
Green Information Systems and Energy Efficient Computing
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for/in Emerging Markets
Free/Open Source Systems (FOSS)
Economic, Legal, and Social Aspects of Software and Services
Enterprise Information Systems

Professional Experience 

Assistant Professor, IDRBT, Hyderabad, India [Sept. 2011 - Till Date]
Researcher, IBM Research, Bangalore, India [Nov. 2010 - Aug. 2011]
Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy [March 2010 – Aug. 2010]
Researcher, Novay (Telematica Institute), Enschede, Netherlands [June 2008 – Feb. 2010]
Post-doctorate researcher, University of Trento, Trento, Italy [November 2007 - May 2008]

Software Industrial Experience

4 years programming experience (including 1 year as Team Lead)
Analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging experience
Database modelling and design experience
Experience with eXtreme Programming  & Agile methodologies 
Client consulting experience
Familiarity with CMM and Agile Project Methodologies

Academic Achievements

National Merit Scholarship Winner in SSC
First Rank Holder in M.Sc., Computer Science
Full scholarship holder for studying International Masters in IT (2003-2004) sponsored by Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Italian Ministry of Education & Research
Ph.D. Fellowship (2004-2007)  from University of Trento, Trento, Italy 

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria (July –  September 2007) 
Visiting Researcher, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (March – June 2007) 

Program Committee Memberships

IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2011)
Intl. Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRCIS 2011)
International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2011)

PC Co-chair of the First International Workshop on Services, Energy, & Ecosystem (SEE 2010) (Colocated with ICSOC 2010) San Francisco, USA
IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010)
Intl. Conference on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICECOMPUTATION 2010)
Intl. Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRCIS 2010)
International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2010)
Associate Editor of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2010)
International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2010)
International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society (CYBERLAWS 2010)

PC Co-chair of the International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE’09) (Colocated with MCIS 2009) Athens, Greece
International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2009)
Associate Editor of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009)
International Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRCIS 2009 Co-located with CAISE 2009)
International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2009)

PC Co-chair of the International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE’08) (Colocated with ICSOC 2008) Sydney, Australia

Editorial Review Board Member

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), Inderscience Publishers
International Journal of Organizational and Collective  Intelligence (IJOCI), IGI Global, USA
International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering and Technology (IJSSMET), IRMA Publications, IGI Global, USA
International Journal of Applied Logistics, IGI Global, USA

Reviewer 

Reviewer for ICSOC 2009, CooPIS 2009, HICSS 2009, ICSOC 2008, ICSOC 2007, ICSOC 2006, CooPIS 2006, ICSOC 2005, HICSS 2005

Publications

International Journals (Refereed):

1. G.R. Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea “Service Licensing: Conceptualization, Formalization, and Expression”, Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Springer, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 37-59.
   
   
2. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea “Managing Copyrights and Moral Rights of Service-Based Software”, IEEE Software, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2011. 
   
   
3. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Michael Weiss, “Free/Open Services (F/O-Services)”, IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 12, No. 6, 2010. 
   
   
4. G.R.Gangadharan, Paul Oude Luttighuis, “BHive: A Reference Framework for Business-driven Service Design and Management”, Journal of Service Science, Springer. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010.
   
   
5. Stefano De Paoli, G.R. Gangadharan, Aphra Kerr, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Martin Serrano, Dmitri Botvich, Jimmy McGibney, "Toward Trust as Result: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the "Future Internet"". Journal tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010.
   
   
6. G.R.Gangadharan, Erwin Fielt “Analyzing Requirements and Approaches for Sourcing Software Based Services”, International Journal of Applied Logistics, Vol. 1. No. 2. 2010 IRMA Publications.
   
   
7. G.R.Gangadharan, Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Michael Weiss “Managing License Compliance in Free and Open Source Software Development”, Information Systems Frontiers, Springer (Published OnlineFirst).  
   
   
8. Michael Weiss, G.R.Gangadharan “Innovation in Mashup Ecosystems”, Journal of the R & D Management, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2010 Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
   
   
9. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea “Service Orientation: Licensing Perspectives”, Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009. 
   
   
10. G.R.Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Renato Iannella “Service Licensing Composition and Compatibility Analysis” International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), World Scientific Publishers, September 2008. 
    
    
11. Alexander Ivanyukovich, G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Maurizio Marchese “Towards A Service-Oriented Development Methodology” Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, IOS Press, 2005 Vol.  9 / No. 3, pp. 53-62.

International Conference Papers (Refereed):

1. Hong-Linh Truong, G.R. Gangadharan, Marco Comerio, Schahram Dustdar, and Flavio De Paoli. “On Analyzing and Developing Data Contracts in Cloud-based Data Marketplaces”, Proceedings of the  IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC’11), Jeju, Korea, December 2011.
   
   
2. Karthikeyan  Ponnalagu,  Nanjangud Narendra, and G.R. Gangadharan. rchitectural “Asset Analysis for Model-driven Development of SOA Solutions”, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’11), Paphos, Cyprus, December 2011 Springer LNCS.
   
   
3. Norian Kuiper, G.R. Gangadharan, Marijn Janssen. “Using IS/IT Valuation in Practice”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011), Detroit, USA, August 2011.
   
   
4. G.R. Gangadharan, Anshu Jain, Nidhi Rajshree, Alan Hartman, Amit Agrahari. "Participatory Service Design for Emerging Markets" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), Beijing, China, 2011.
    
5. Arun Sharma,  G.R. Gangadharan, Krishna Kummamuru, Jyothi Somasekhara, Alan Hartman. "Evaluating Public Service Delivery in Emerging Markets" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), Beijing, China 2011.
   
   
6. Mariagrazia Fugini, G.R.Gangadharan, Barbara Pernici. “Designing and Managing Sustainable IT Service Systems”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2010), Como, Italy. Springer.
   
   
7. G.R.Gangadharan, Marco Comerio, Hong-Linh Truong, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Flavio De Paoli, Schahram Dustdar. “LASS - License Aware Service Selection: Methodology and Framework”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’08), Sydney, Australia, December 2008. Springer LNCS.
   
   
8. G.R.Gangadharan, Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Michael Weiss. “License Compliance Issues in Free and Open Source Software”, Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS’08), Hammamet, Tunisia, October 2008.
   
   
9. G.R.Gangadharan, Marco Comerio, Hong-Linh Truong, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Flavio De Paoli, Schahram Dustdar. “License-aware Service Selection”, Proceedings of the IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC'08/EEE'08), Washington D.C., USA, July 2008.
   
   
10. G.R.Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D’Andrea. “Patterns for Licensing Web Services”, Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP 2008), Germany, July 2008.
    
    
11. G.R.Gangadharan, Hong-Linh Truong, Martin Trieber, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Schahram Dustdar, Renato Iannella, Michael Weiss. “Consumer-specified Service Licenses Selection and Composition” Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS’08), Madrid, Spain, February 2008.
    
    
12. G.R.Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Renato Iannella. “Service Licensing Composition and Compatibility Analysis” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007. Springer LNCS.
    
    
13. G.R.Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Babak Esfandiari, Vincenzo D’Andrea. “A Feature Interaction View of License Conflicts”, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI’07), Grenoble, France, September 2007.
    
    
14. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Michael Weiss. “Free/Open Services: Conceptualization, Classification, and Commercialization”, Proceedings of the IFIP Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS’07), Limerick, Ireland, June 2007.
    
    
15. G.R.Gangadharan, Ganna Frankova, Vincenzo D’Andrea. “Service License Life Cycle”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS’07), Orlando, USA, May 2007.
    
    
16. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea. “Licensing Services: Formal Representation and Implementation”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’06), Chicago, USA, December 2006 Springer  LNCS 4294 pp. 365- 377.
    
    
17. Vincenzo D’Andrea, G.R.Gangadharan.  “Licensing Services: An “Open” Perspective”, Proceedings of the IFIP Second International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS’06), Como, Italy, June 2006 IFIP Volume 203 Springer pp. 143-154.
    
    
18. Vincenzo D’Andrea, G.R.Gangadharan. “Licensing Web Services: The Rising”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2006), Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, February 2006 pp. 142-147.

International Workshop Papers (Refereed):

1. Cinzia Cappiello, Maria Grazia Fugini, G. R. Gangadharan, Alexandre Mello Ferreira, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani. "Towards Energy-Aware Adaptive Business Processes". Proceedings of the OTM Workshops 2010.
   
   
2. Soudip RoyChowdhury, G.R. Gangadharan, Patricia Silveira, Vincenzo D’Andrea “From ODRL-S to Low-level DSL: A Case Study Based on License Compliance in Service Oriented Systems”, Proceedings of the International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods 2010.
   
   
3. G.R. Gangadharan, Michael Weiss, Vincenzo D’Andrea, and Renato Iannella "Exploring the Intellectual Rights in the Mashup Ecosystem" Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, Poznan University Press 2008

Book Chapters (Refereed):

1. Roberta Ferrario, Nicola Guarino, Ken Laskey, Romano Trampus, Alan Hartman and G.R. Gangadharan  "Conceptual Modeling Approaches for Services Science". In Book: “Handbook of Service Description". Springer 2011 (Accepted for publication).
   
   
2. G.R.Gangadharan, Davide Maria Parrilli "Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing: Perspectives of Private Consumers and Small and Medium Enterprises". In Book: “Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures” Springer 2011 (Accepted for publication).
   
   
3. Hong-Linh Truong, G.R. Gangadharan, Marco Comerio, Schahram Dustdar, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Flavio De Paoli "Reconciliation of Contractual Concerns of Web Services". In Book: “Handbook of Research on Non-Functional Properties for Service-Oriented Systems: Future Directions” IGI Global 2011.
   
   
4. G.R.Gangadharan, Marc Lankhorst, Paul Oude Luttighuis “Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing”, In Book: “Cloud Computing”. CRC Press. (Accepted for publication). 
   
   
5. G.R.Gangadharan, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Renato Iannella, Michael Weiss “ODRL Service Licensing Profile (ODRL-S)” In Book “Virtual Goods: Technology, Economy, and Legal Aspects” (ISBN: 978-1-60456-486-0), Nova Publishers, USA 2008. 

Book Edited:

1. San Murugesan and G.R. Gangadharan (Editors) “Harnessing Green IT: Principles & Practices” [To be published in 2012 by John Wiley Publishers, United Kingdom].

Proceedings Edited:

1. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Service, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) [Published as part of ICSOC Workshops Proceedings 2010 Springer]. Edited by: Schahram Dustdar, G.R. Gangadharan,
   San Murugesan, Patricia Lago, Barbara Pernici.
   
   
2. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE 2009), Athens, Greece. [Published by CEUR-WS 2009.]  Edited by: Vincenzo D'Andrea, G.R. Gangadharan, Renato Iannella, Michael Weiss.
   
   
3. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE 2008) [Published as part of ICSOC Workshops Proceedings 2008 Springer]. Edited by: Vincenzo D'Andrea, G.R. Gangadharan, Renato Iannella, Michael Weiss.

Other Publications:

1. G.R.Gangadharan “Sourcing Criteria for SaaS”, Executive Update – Sourcing & Vendor Relationships, Vol. 10, No. 5, Cutter Consortium.
   
   
2. G.R.Gangadharan “Understanding Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing”, Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 22, No. 6/7, 2009.

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