Central Concerns and Questions

Complex engineered systems like the Internet are typically designed by many different individuals and organizations, none of which controls the entire system and whose interests are not necessarily aligned. This work seeks to understand how economically motivated designers interact in such systems, and how these interactions give rise to new architectural layers and value migration among existing layers.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

We are exploring the rise of new platforms such as social networking services and grid computing infrastructure, the commoditization of product categories like databases and operating systems, and the tension between open standards and proprietary control in increasingly software-intensive areas like digital media, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

Selected Publications

[1] C. J. Woodard. Architectural Control Points. Third International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technolog y (DESRIST), 2008. Short paper.

[2] C. J. Woodard. Modeling Architectural Strategy Using Design Structure Networks. Second International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), 2007.

[3] C. Y. Baldwin and C. J. Woodard. Competition in Modular Clusters. Harvard Business School Working Paper 08-042, 2007.

Working papers are available at http://kuala.smu.edu.sg/~jason/papers/.

Projects, Presentations and Posters

1. Jason WOODARD, Architectural Control Points (poster)
2. Jason WOODARD, Architectural Control and Value Migration in Platform Industries (presentation)
3. Jason WOODARD, Modeling Architectural Strategy Using Design Structure Networks (presentation)
4. Jason WOODARD and Carliss BALDWIN, Competition in Modular Clusters (presentation)
5. Jason WOODARD and Darshan SANTANI, Kuala Modeling Tools (software project website)