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2012

Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Mentis, M. (in press). Scaffolding in Mobile Science Enquiry-based Learning Using Ontologies. e-Education and e-Learning.
Ahmed, S., Parsons. D., & Mentis, M. (accepted). An Ontology Supported Abductive Mobile Enquiry Based Learning Application, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, July 4-6 2012.
Parsons, D., & Lange, M. (in press). Test driven decomposition of legacy systems into services, in X. Wang and N. Ali (Eds.) Agile and Lean Service-Oriented Development: Foundations, Theory and Practice, Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (in press). Managing meta-learning in offshore software vendor environments, Journal of Management Development, 31(6).
Parsons, D., Petrova, K., & Ryu, H. (2012) Mobile Gaming - A Serious Business! Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012), Takamatsu, Japan, March 27-30 2012.
Parsons, D. (2012). Foundational Java: Key Elements and Practical Programming, London: Springer.
Parsons, D. (Ed.) (2012). Refining Current Practices in Mobile and Blended Learning: New Applications, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2012). A Virtual World Workshop Environment for Learning Agile Software Development Techniques. International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 3(1), 37-54.
Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2012). Risky Business or Sharing the Load? - Social Flow in Collaborative Mobile Learning, Computers & Education 58, 707-720.

2011

Parsons, D., Lal, R., & Lange, M. (2011.) Test Driven Development: Advancing Knowledge by Conjecture and Confirmation, Future Internet 3(4), 281-297.
Parsons, D. (2011.) An Ontology of Agile Aspect Oriented Software Development, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 15(1), 1-11.
Hearns, M., Diener, S., Honey, M., Cockeram, J., Parsons, D. et al. (2011). He ara hou ka tū mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change. Proceedings of ASCILITE 2011, Hobart, Australia, 4-7 December 2011.
Ahmed, S., & Parsons. D. (2011). ThinknLearn: An Ontology-Driven Mobile Web Application For Science Enquiry Based Learning. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, 21-24 November, 2011, Sydney, Australia. 255-260
Parsons. D., Petrova, K., & Ryu, H. (2011). Designing Mobile Games for Engagement and Learning. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, 21-24 November, 2011, Sydney, Australia. 261-266.
Puja, J., & Parsons, D. (2011). A Location-Based Mobile Game for Business Education. Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 6-8 July, 2011, Athens, Georgia, USA, (pp. 141-144).
Ahmed, S., & Parsons, D. (2011). COMET: Context Ontology For Mobile Education Technology, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, New Zealand, 28 June - 2 July 2011. LNAI 6738: Springer (pp. 414-416).
Parsons, D. (Ed.) (2011). Combining E-Learning and M-Learning: New Applications of Blended Educational Resources, Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.

2010

Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2010.) Cloud as Context: Virtual World Learning with Open Wonderland. Proceedings of 9^th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta, 19-22 October 2010, 123-130
Ryu, H., Cui, J., & Parsons, D. (2010). Raising the Bar of Challenge with Collaboration: Social Flow in Mobile Learning. Proceedings of 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta, 19-22 October 2010, (pp. 240-247).
Parsons, D. (2010). The Zen of Mobile Learning: Turning the Eye Inward (Review of 'Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, tools and research design' by Vavoula et al., Peter Lang 2009) International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2(2), 50-57.
Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). Supporting Adaptive Learning Interactions with Ontologies. Proceedings of 11th Annual ACM SIGCHI NZ Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 8-9 July 2010, Auckland, New Zealand.
Park, J., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). To Flow and Not to Freeze: Applying Flow Experience to Mobile Learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (special issue on Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning), 3(1), 56-67
Gravell, A., & Parsons, D. (2010). Dynamic Web Application Development using ASP.NET, London: Cengage Learning
Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). Beyond Learning Objects - Dynamic adaptation in learning scenarios for lifelong learners, IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter, 12(1), January 2010, 49-51

2009

Parsons, D. (2009). Greentree Mobile: An Analysis. Commercial white paper
Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2009). Agile in Wonderland: implementing a virtual world workshop activity, Proceedings of 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 December 2009.
Parsons, D. (2009.) Adventures in the Mobile Learning Toolbox. Proceedings of 8^th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2009), Orlando. Florida, 26-30 October 2009.
Mathrani. A, Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2009). Workgroup Structures in Offshore Software Development Projects: A Vendor Case Study. Proceedings of Thirteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-4 September 2009
Ryu, H., Parsons, D., Li, J., Sheng, N., & Javed Y. (2009). New wine in new bottles: applying flow experience to mobile learning. Proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 25-8 February 2009.
Li, L., Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2009). The influence of spatial working memory on mobile learning content design. Proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 25-8 February 2009.
Parsons, D. (2009). IT Education and IT Industry in New Zealand, Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Applications and Principles in Information Science, Okinawa, Japan, 18-21 January 2009.
Parsons, D. (2009). Mobile Portal Technologies and Business Models, in D. Taniar (Ed.) Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, Hershey, PA:IGI Global
Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (Eds.) (2009). Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies, Hershey. PA: Information Science Reference.
Xie, F., & Parsons, D. (2009). Assessing the Benefits of AJAX in Mobile Learning Systems Design, in H. Ryu and D. Parsons (Eds.) Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies, Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 323-354.
Stockdale, R., Le Heron, J., & Parsons, D. (2009). Beyond Content: Engaging Students in Tertiary Foundation Courses in Information Technology. Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology 13(1)

2008

Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Lal R. (2008). Better, Not More Expensive, Faster? The Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in Survey Data. Proceedings of 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2008.
Parsons, D., Stockdale, R., Bowles, J., & Kamble, V. (2008). If We Build It Will They Come? Creating a Virtual Classroom in Second Life. Proceedings of 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2008.
Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2008). Assessing Learning Technologies for Software Design Using CRC Cards. Proceedings of ascilite 2008 conference, Melbourne, Australia, 30 November - 3 December 2008.
Xie, F. & Parsons, D. (2008). Measuring AJAX Performance on a GPRS Mobile Platform. Proceedings of International Journal of Principles and Applications in Information Science and Technology, 2(1) 1-12
Ryu, H., Parsons, D., & Norris, T. (2008). International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation. Special Issue on: Current Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications editorial, 2(2), 99-102.
Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2008). A learner-centred design of a location-aware learning reminder. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation 2(2) 187-200
Stockdale, R., Le Heron, J., Parsons, D., & Norris, T. (2008). Beyond Content: Engaging Students in Foundation Information Technology Courses. Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Auckland, New Zealand, July 4-8, 2008, 169-174.
Parsons, D. (2008). The Agile Technique Hour. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP2008), Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14 2008, 246-7.
Parsons, D. (2008). Evolving Web Application Architectures, from Model 2 to Web 2, in D. Brandon (Ed.) Software Engineering for Modern Web Applications - Methodologies and Technologies, IGI Global, Hershey, PA: 138-159.
Parsons, D. (2008). Dynamic Web Application Development Using XML and Java, London: Cengage Learning.
Xie, F., & Parsons, D. (2008). Measuring Ajax Performance on a GPRS Mobile Platform. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science (APIS2008), Auckland, New Zealand, January 28-29, 2008.
Stobart, S., & Parsons, D. (2008). Dynamic Web Application Development Using PHP and MySQL, London: Cengage Learning.

2007

Mathrani, A., Viehland, D., & Parsons, D. (2007). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: The Outsourcers Perspective. in V. Verma (Ed.) Managing Offshore Software Projects, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 58-80.
Mathrani, A., Goel, G., & Parsons. D. (2007). Building Trust Across Virtual Social Spaces: The Software Vendors' Perspectives. Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba, Australia, December 5-7 2007.
Parsons. D., Lal, R., Lange, M., & Ryu, H. (2007). Software Development Methodologies, Agile Development and Usability Engineering. Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba, Australia, December 5-7 2007.
Parsons, D. (2007). Mobile Portal Technologies and Business Models, in A. Tatnall (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Portal Technology and Applications, Hershey, PA:IGI Global, 583-586.
Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Cranshaw, M. (2007). A Design Requirements Framework for Mobile Learning Environments, Journal of Computers 2(4) 1-8.
Parsons. D. (2007). Evolving Architectural Patterns For Web Applications. Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Tan, Thong & Janczewski (eds.) Auckland, New Zealand, July 3-6, 2007, 120-126.
Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Lal, R. (2007). The Impact of Methods and Techniques on Outcomes from Agile Software Development Projects. in Organisational Dynamics of Technology-based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda, McMaster, Wastell, Ferneley & DeGross (eds.) Proceedings of IFIP 8.6 conference, Manchester, UK, June 14-16 2007, Springer, 235-249.
Parsons, D. (2007). Mobile Learning, in D. Taniar (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce, IGI Global, 525-527
Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (2007). Management of Knowledge Transfer in Distributed Software Organizations: The Outsourcers' Perspective, in Annals of Information Systems, Vol 2: Decision Support for Global Enterprises, Kulkarmi, Power and Sharda (eds.), New York: Springer, 2007, 75-89.
Parsons D., & Ryu, H. (eds.) (2007). Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA), Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland.
Parsons, D., & Ryu. (2007). Software Architectures for Mobile Learning. Proceedings of Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA) 2007, Auckland New Zealand, 19 February 2007, 39-46.
Ryu, H., Brown, R., Wong, A., & Parsons, D. (2007). Personal Learning Organiser: A design of mobile learning experience for university students. Proceedings of Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA) 2007, Auckland New Zealand, 19 February 2007, 23-30.
Diegel, D. Ryu, H., Norris, T., Stockdale, R., Parsons, D., & Hawick, K. (2007). Predictive Health Monitoring Systems for the Management of Hypertension. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science (APIS 2007), Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia 20-23 January 2007, 19-22.

2006

Parsons, D., & Newnham, J. (2006). A Web Services Architecture for Rich Content Mobile Learning Clients. Proceedings of 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2006), Adelaide, Australia, 6-8 December 2006.
Brown, R., Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2006). Mobile Helper for University Students: A Design for a Mobile Learning Environment, Proceedings of OzCHI 2006, Sydney, Australia, 20-24 November 2006
Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Cranshaw, M. (2006). A Study of Design Requirements for Mobile Learning Environments. Proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 5-7 July 2006, 96-100.
Mathrani, A., Parsons, D., & Viehland, D. (2006). Offshore Software Development Strategies of an Indian Vendor: A Study. The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, 5 (5), May 2006, 71-81.
Parsons, D. (2006). Extending the Location API for J2ME to Support Friend Finder Services. Proceedings of 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 2006, 992-6.
Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2006). A Framework for Assessing the Quality of Mobile Learning in R. Dawson, E. Georgiadou, P. Lincar, M. Ross & G. Staples (eds.), Learning and Teaching Issues in Software Quality, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Process Improvement, Research and Education (INSPIRE), Southampton Solent University, UK, April 2006, 17-27.
Parsons, D., & Lal, R. (2006). Hybrid Agile Development and Software Quality in R.Dawson, E. Georgiadou, P. Linecar, M.Ross & G. Staples (eds.), Perspectives in Software Quality, proceedings of the 14th International Software Quality Management (SQM) Conference, Southampton Solent University, UK, April 2006, 283-298.
Parsons D., & Schroder, S. (2006). Adaptive Information Systems for the Web 2.0: Developing a Mobile Learning Architecture. Proceedings of 11th Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS 2006), University of Gloucestershire, UK, April 2006.
Parsons D. (2006). Adaptive Web Applications. Paper presented at Software Development Conference '06, Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, 13-17 March, 2006.
Parsons, D., Rashid, A., Telea, A., & Speck, A. (2006). An Architectural Pattern for Designing Component-Based Application Frameworks, Software Practice and Experience, 36, January 2006, 157-190.
Parsons, D. (2006). The Java Location API. Dr. Dobbs Journal, January 2006, 53-8.

2005

Parsons, D., Ryu, H. Lal, R., & Ford, S. (2005). Paper Prototyping in a Design Framework for Professional Mobile Learning. Proceedings of 6th W-eB Conference, Melbourne, November 2005.
Mathrani, A., Viehland, D., & Parsons, D. (2005). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: The Outsourcers Perspective. Proceedings of Second International Conference in Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific, Victoria University, Wellington, 28 -29 November, 2005
Mathrani, A., Parsons, D., & Viehland, D. (2005). Virtual Team Issues: Culture, Communication, Coordination and Control - The New Zealand and Indian Perspective, Proceedings of First International Conference on Management of Globally Distributed Work, Bangalore, India 28th - 30th December, 2005, 291-301.
Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (2005). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: An Indian Vendor Perspective, Proceedings of Fifth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management; Bhopal, India, 27-30 December 2005, 817-825.
Parsons, D. (2005). Developing a Simulator for the Location API for J2ME. Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 8, 157-170.
Parsons, D. (2005). Extending the Client Side Object Model in the Location API for J2ME. Mobile Object Systems Workshop, 19th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005), Glasgow, July 2005.
Parsons, D., Kirsh, I., & Cranshaw, M. (2005). Java Technology for the Wireless Industry - Toys or Tools? Java Developers Journal, 10 (1), January 2005, 32-7.
Parsons, D. (2005). Java Architectures for Mobilised Enterprise Systems Proceedings of Hawaii Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 38), Hawaii, January 2005, 298.
Parsons, D. (2005). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Thomson (reprint of 1997 edition by new publisher).

2004

Parsons, D. (2004). Java Phones - Not Just for Games. Telecommunications Review, December 2004, 21.
Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2004). Mobile Information Systems in a 3G/WLAN World - Many Rich Clients who Know Where They Are Proceedings of ACIS 2004 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2004
Parsons, D. (2004). The Mobile Future. Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 7, 47-58.
Parsons, D. (2004). The Mobile Future. Paper presented at Software Development 2004 Conference, Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, March 2004

2003

Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2003). Java Data Objects - Taking The Eeeeeeh! Out of EJB OT 2003 Conference, Cambridge, UK, April 2003
Parsons, D. (2003). Introductory Java (2nd edition), London: Continuum.

2002

Parsons, D. (2002). Mind The Gap! - Mapping Enterprise Java Objects to the Database. UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Conference. Birmingham, UK, December 2002
Parsons, D. (2002). Enterprise Integration with Oracle 9iAS & J2EE. UK Oracle User Group Java Seminar, June 2002, London.
Parsons, D. (2002). New Features in EJB 2.OT 2002 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 2002 (also presented at XML/Web Services 2002, London

2001

Parsons, D. (2001). New Dogs, Old Tricks - Design Patterns for EJB. Paper presented at OT 2001 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 2001

2000

Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2000). Patterns of Visual Programming. Proceedings of TOOLS 33 Europe 2000, Mont St. Michel, France, June 2000
Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2000). Patterns of Visual Programming. Paper presented at OT 2000 Conference, Oxford, UK, March 2000
Parsons, D. (2000). e-Business Java in the Classroom. Proceedings of 4th Java in the Computing Curriculum Conference, South Bank University, UK, January 2000.
Parsons, D. (2000). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Continuum (reprint of 1997 edition by new publisher).

1999

Parsons, D. (1999). Run Time Reusability in Object Oriented Schematic Capture. Ph.D. thesis, Information Technology, Nottingham Trent University
Rashid, A., Parsons, D., & Telea, A. (eds.) (1999). Position papers from the 9th Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems. Eindhoven University of Technology.
Rashid, A., Telea, A., & Parsons, D. (1999). 9th Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems. 13th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1999. ECOOP '99 Workshop Reader (Editors: Ana Moreira, Serge Demeyer) LNCS 1743, Springer, 116.
Parsons, D., Rashid, A., Speck, A., & Telea, A. (1999). A 'Framework' For Object-Oriented Frameworks Design.Proceedings of TOOLS Europe 99, Nancy, France, June 1999, 141-151.
Parsons, D. (1999). Java + Patterns = Object Engineering? Proceedings of 3rd Java in the Computing Curriculum Conference, South Bank University, UK, January 1999. Monitor, 12, 31-37.

1998

Parsons, D. (1998). Run-Time Reusability in Object-Oriented Schematic Capture. 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 98) Brussels, Belgium, July 1998. ECOOP '98 Workshop Reader (Editors: S. Demeyer & J. Bosch) LNCS 1543, Springer, 23-24.
Parsons, D. (1998). UML: Notations, Roles, Design Processes OT 98 Conference Oxford, UK, April 1998.
Parsons, D. (1998). Introductory Java (1st edition), London: Letts Educational

1997

Parsons, D. (1997). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Letts Educational.
Parsons, D., & Kazmierski, T. (1997). Visual polymorphism in schematic capture for VHDL-AMS. IEEE/VIUF International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation (BMAS'97), Arlington, Virginia, USA, October 1997.
Parsons, D. & Kazmierski, T. (1997). Building an Extensible User Interface. OT 97 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 1997

1996

Parsons, D. (1996). Small Scale Functional Modelling - An Object-Driven Approach. OT 96 Conference, Oxford, UK, March 1996.

1995

Parsons, D. (1995). Object Oriented Systems of Capturing Schematic Data. M.Phil. thesis, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

1994

Parsons, D. (1994). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (1st edition), London: DP Publications
Parsons, D. (1994). Pragmatism over Purism? An Incremental Approach to the Teaching of Object-Oriented Programming in Software Engineering in Higher Education eds. G. King, C.A.Brebbia, M. Ross and G.Staples, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton and Boston, 375-382.

1993

Parsons, D., & Kazmierski, T. (1993). Object Oriented Schematic Capture for Circuit Simulation in Software Applications in Electrical Engineering ed. P. P. Silvester, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton and Boston, 377-385.