Prof Marian Petre
Emeritus Professor
Marian Petre is interested in expertise in software design. Her interdisciplinary research draws on cognitive theory and qualitative research methods to analyze how expert software designers behave and reason when solving design problems. Her research is grounded in empirical studies of actual professional practice in industry. She has investigated software design from a number of different perspectives, including: cognitive dimensions of notations, a whiteboard tool for design, programming paradigms, graphical and textual notations, software visualisation, disciplines of innovation, and how designers learn effective strategies. Most recently, she has been studying the integration of software engineering practices into computational science.
Publications
Rzevski, George , Sharp, Helen, Petre, Marian and Buckland, Rodney(1997). Intelligent Support for Conceptual Design: A flow modeling approach. Technical Report 1997/04; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Petre, Marian, Carswell, Linda and Price, Blaine(1997). Innovations in large-scale supported distance teaching transformation for the Internet, not just translation. Technical Report 1997/05; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Petre, Marian and Cole, Paula(1997). Summary of a preliminary comparison of costs for a conventional and Internet delivery of M205. Technical Report 1997/06; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Petre, Marian, Carswell, Linda,Price, Blaine and Thomas, Pete (1997). The MZX Trials: Update April 1997. Technical Report 1997/10; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Thomas, Pete , Carswell, Linda,Price, Blaine and Petre, Marian(1998). A Holistic approach to supporting distance learning using the Internet: transformation, not translation. Technical Report 1998/03; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Petre, Marian, Carswell, Linda,Price, Blaine and Thomas, Pete (1998). Innovations in large-scale supported distance teaching: transformation for the Internet, not just translation. Technical Report 1998/04; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Minocha, Shailey , Dawson, Liisa,Roberts, Dave and Petre, Marian(2004). E-SEQUAL: A Customer-Centred Approach to Providing Value in E-Commerce Environments. Technical Report 2004/12; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Haley, Debra Trusso , Thomas, Pete , De Roeck, Anne and Petre, Marian(2005). A Research Taxonomy for Latent Semantic Analysis-Based Educational Applications. Technical Report 2005/09; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Ellims, Michael,Ince, Darrel and Petre, Marian(2007). AETG vs. Man: an Assessment of the Effectiveness of Combinatorial Test Data Generation. Technical Report 2007/08; Department of Computing, The Open University.
Haley, Debra Trusso , Thomas, Pete , Petre, Marian and De Roeck, Anne (2007). Seeing the Whole Picture: Comparing Computer Assisted Assessment Systems using LSA-based Systems as an Example. Technical Report 2007/07; Department of Computing, The Open University.
