Here is a collection of acedemic publications.

Stephens, R. (2005). Integrating Consumer Taxonomies within the Enterprise Metadata Environment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Management. Charlotte, NC: Information and Knowledge Management Society. (refereed)

Stephens, R. (2005). Branding and Marketing E-Business Systems. Proceedings of the 2005 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. Atlanta, GA: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. (refereed)

Invited Session: Stephens, R. (2005). Enterprise Metadata: Theory, Methodology, and Case Study. Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2005 Conference. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Stephens, R. (2005). Implementing Enterprise Reuse. Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference. Kennesaw, GA: The Association of Computing Machinery. (refereed)

Invited Session: Stephens, R. (2005). Enterprise Metadata: Theory, Methodology, and Case Study. Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference in Systems Science. Waikoloa, HI: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Stephens, R. (2004). Measuring Information Reuse. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering. Las Vegas, NV: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (refereed)

Stephens, R. (2004). Utilizing Metadata as a Knowledge Communication Tool. Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference 2004. Minneapolis, MN: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (refereed)

Stephens, R. (2004). A Framework for the Identification of Electronic Commerce Design Elements that Enable Trust within the Small Hotel Industry. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference. Huntsville, AL: The Association of Computing Machinery. (refereed)

Stephens, R. (2004). Measuring Enterprise Reuse in Large Corporate Environments. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory. Atlanta, GA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (refereed)