Chrysanthos Dellarocas

Assistant Professor of Information Technologies

Sloan School of Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Room E53-315

Cambridge, MA 02139

Email: dell@mit.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Education

Degree

School

Date

Diploma, Electrical Engineering

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

July 1989

S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT

June 1991

Ph.D., Computer Science

MIT

February 1996

Title of Doctoral Thesis

"A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture: Towards a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components"

Principal Field(s) of Interest

General Field:

Information Technology

Specific Subfields:

Name and Rank of other Sloan Faculty in Same Field

Name

Rank

Erik Brynjolfsson

Associate Professor

Stuart Madnick

Professor

Thomas Malone

Professor

Wanda Orlikowski

Associate Professor

John Rockart

Senior Lecturer

Non-MIT Employment

Employer

Position

Start

End

Ministry of Social Services, Greece

UNIX and C Instructor

11/1985

6/1989

Nixdorf Computer

Trainee

6/1987

8/1987

Andersen Consulting

Consultant

9/1991

8/1992

McKinsey and Company, Inc.

Summer Associate

6/1993

8/1993

History of MIT Appointments

Rank

Start

End

Research Assistant, Laboratory for Computer Science

9/1989

6/1991

Research Assistant, Center for Coordination Science

9/1992

1/1996

Assistant Professor of Management

7/1996

ongoing

MIT Activities

Activity

Start

End

Undergraduate Student Advisor

9/1996

ongoing

IT Doctoral Program Coordinator

7/1997

ongoing

Second faculty member, Sloan ITBT track

9/1997

ongoing

Consulting Activities

Name

Location

Start

End

Perot Systems Corporation

Dallas, TX

1/1994

10/1994

Phios Corporation

Cambridge, MA

11/1996

ongoing

Awards

Professional Membership and Activities

Memberships:

Activities:

Subjects Taught

Number

Title

Date

15.564

Information Technology I

Fall 1996

15.564

Information Technology I

Spring 1997

15.564

Information Technology I

Fall 1997

Thesis Supervision
  1. Theses Supervised
    2.

    Name

    Title

    Program

    Degree

    Date

    Patrick Hopkins

    Improving Order Fulfillment Predictability Performance

    LFM

    S.M.

    6/1997

    Alex Moukas

    Amalthea: Information Filtering and Discovery in an Evolving MultiAgent Ecosystem

    Media Lab

    S.M.

    6/1997

  2. Theses in Progress

Name

Program

Degree

Date

Sergio Paniagua-Webb

Technology and Public Policy

S.M.

6/1998

John Ruark

Operations Research

Ph.D.

6/1998

Publications
  1. Textbooks
    2.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Ioannis Cavouras, Christos Halkiopoulos. The UNIX Operating System and the C Programming Language. Greek Computer Society Press, Athens, Greece, 1986 (in Greek).

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Papakonstantinou, Panayiotis Tsanakas. The EMPIX Operating System. Athens, Greece, 1990 (in Greek).

  2. Refereed Journal Articles
    3.

    Colbrook, W. Weihl, E. Brewer, C. Dellarocas, W. Hsieh, A. Joseph, C. Waldspurger and P. Wang. Portable software for multiprocessor systems. Computing and Control Engineering Journal, November 1992, pages 275-281.

    Adrian Colbrook, Eric A. Brewer, Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, and William E. Weihl. Algorithms for Search Trees on Message-Passing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1996.
  3. Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings
    4.

    Adrian Colbrook, Eric A. Brewer, Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, and William E. Weihl. An Algorithm for Concurrent Search Trees. In Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 12-16, 1991, University Park, PA. Vol. 3, pages 138-141.

    Eric Brewer, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Adrian Colbrook, William Weihl. Proteus: A High-Performance Parallel-Architecture Simulator. In Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE ‘92 International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June 1-5 1992, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, pages 247-248.

    William Weihl, Eric Brewer, Adrian Colbrook, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Wilson Hsieh, Antony Joseph, Carl Waldspurger, Paul Wang. PRELUDE: A System for Portable Parallel Software. In Proceedings of 4th International PARLE Conference (Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe), Paris, France, June 15-18, 1992, pages 971-972. Published as Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 605.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Jintae Lee, Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston and Brian Pentland. Using a Process Handbook to Design Organizational Processes. In Proceedings of the AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium on Computational Organization Design, Stanford, California, March 21-23, 1994, pages 50-56. Published by the AAAI Press as Technical Report SS-94-07.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. Software Component Interconnection Should Be Treated as a Distinct Design Problem. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop on Software Reuse (WISR), Columbus, Ohio, March 23-26, 1997.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. Towards A Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools (SAST’97), Pittsburgh, PA, June 2-5, 1997, pages 3-13.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’97), Madrid, Spain, June 17-20, 1997, pages 569-578.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. The Synthesis Environment for Component-Based Software Development. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP’97), London, UK, July 14-18, 1997.

     

  4. Publications in Progress and Pending Review
    5.

    Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Wyner, John Quimby, Charles S. Osborn, Avi Bernstein, George Herman, Mark Klein, and Elissa O’Donnell. Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes. Submitted to Management Science.

     

  5. Other Publications
    6.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. The position of the Greek Computer Society on the acceptance of UNIX as a standard in the Greek public sector. Greek Computer Society Bulletin 22, February 1988.

    Abraham Bernstein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Thomas W. Malone and John Quimby. Software Tools for a Process Handbook. IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 1995, pages 41-48.
  6. Technical Reports
    7.

    Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas. A High-Performance Retargetable Simulator for Parallel Architectures (Master’s Thesis). MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-505, June 1991.

    Eric Brewer and Chrysanthos Dellarocas. Proteus: A High-Performance Parallel-Architecture Simulator. In Proceedings of the 1991 MIT Student Workshop on VLSI and Parallel Systems, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-513, August 1991.

    C. Waldspurger, E. Brewer, A. Colbrook, C. Dellarocas, W. Hsieh, A. Joseph, B, Spiers, P. Wang and W. Weihl. Portable Parallel Software. In Proceedings of the 1991 MIT Student Workshop on VLSI and Parallel Systems, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-513, August 1991.

    Eric A. Brewer, Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, Adrian Colbrook, William E. Weihl. Proteus: A High-Performance Parallel-Architecture Simulator. MIT Laboratory fro Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-516, September 1991.

    Adrian Colbrook, Eric A. Brewer, Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, William E. Weihl. Algorithms for Search Trees on Message-Passing Architectures. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-517, September 1991.

    W. Weihl, E. Brewer, A. Colbrook, C. Dellarocas, W. Hsieh, A. Joseph, C. Waldspurger, P. Wang. Prelude: A System for Portable Parallel Software. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-519, October 1991.

    Chrysanthos Dellarocas. A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture: Towards a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components. Center for Coordination Science Working Paper 193 (Ph.D. Thesis), February 1996.

    Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, George Wyner, John Quimby, Charley Osborne and Abraham Bernstein. Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes. Center for Coordination Science Working Paper 198, December 1996.

  7. Patents Pending

Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee, Brian Pentland, Chrysanthos Dellarocas. A COMPUTERIZED HANDBOOK OF PROCESSES. International Application Published under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). International Publication Number WO 94/19742, September 1, 1994.

Chrysanthos Dellarocas and Thomas W. Malone. COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED PROCESS FOR REPRESENTING SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS AND FOR GENERATING EXECUTABLE SOFTWARE PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS FROM SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS.

Invited Oral Presentations

September 1996, "A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design", Invited seminar at Texas Instruments Software, Dallas, Texas.

November 1996, "Towards a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components", Invited Speaker at the Demeter Seminar, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.

June 1997, "Tools for Inventing Organizations: The Process Handbook Project", Seminar given at Repsol Company, Madrid, Spain.

June 1997, "Building Knowledge-based Organizations for the 21st Century", Seminar given at Repsol Company, Madrid, Spain.

June 1997, "A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design", International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Madrid, Spain.

July 1997, "Toward a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components", Invited Speaker, Software Engineering Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

July 1997, "New Requirements for Component-based Software Methodologies", Workshop on Component Based Development, Software Technology and Engineering Practice Conference (STEP’97), London, England.

July 1997, "The Synthesis Environment for Component-based Software Development", Software Technology and Engineering Practice Conference (STEP’97), London, England.