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Collaboration in Software Engineering: A Roadmap

Jim Whitehead • Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) (2007)

Software engineering projects are inherently cooperative, requiring many software engineers to coordinate their efforts to produce a large software system. Integral to this effort is developing shared understanding surrounding multiple arti...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/fose.2007.4

A survey of controlled experiments in software engineering

D.I.K. Sjoeberg, Jo Erskine Hannay, O. Hansen, Vigdis By Kampenes et al. • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2005)

The classical method for identifying cause-effect relationships is to conduct controlled experiments. This paper reports upon the present state of how controlled experiments in software engineering are conducted and the extent to which rele...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2005.97

Software engineering for security

Prémkumar Dévanbu, Stuart G. Stubblebine • Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) (2000)

Integrating Security Considerations smoothly into early life-cycle activities: uniform application of cost-benefit analyses to both functional, and security requrements; unified modeling approaches to integrate the engineering of both funct...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/336512.336559

Anthropological Research

Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1978)

This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations abo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776

An Anthropology of Structural Violence

Paul E. Farmer • Current Anthropology (2004)

Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/382250

Anthropology of Ontologies

Eduardo O. Kohn • Annual Review of Anthropology (2015)

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127

Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation

Pierre Lascoumes, Patrick Le Galès • Governance (2007)

Public policy instrumentation and its choice of tools and modes of operation are treated either as a kind of evidence (governing means making regulations, taxing, entering into contracts, communicating, etc.) or as if the questions it raise...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2007.00342.x

New spatial records of vascular plants in the Azores Archipelago: the PRIBES project and the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (ABP) initiatives - I. São Jorge Island (Azores)

Andrea Petrone, Paulo Borges, Fernando Pereira, Rui Elias • Biodiversity Data Journal (2026)

The Azores Archipelago is known for its important natural heritage, yet its ecosystems face a “green tsunami” in the form of numerous exotic and invasive species. This influx has wrought serious biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosyste...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e167704

Getting involved: Uganda cancer society´s efforts to build strategic partnerships for tobacco tax increments and strong tobacco industry monitoring

Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases (2018)

Background and challenges to implementation Uganda Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is moving towards fully integrating tobac...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466

Community in Public Policy: Fad or Foundation?

David Adams, Michael Heß • Australian Journal of Public Administration (2001)

Both internationally and within Australia public policy is experiencing a rush back to the idea of community. After 15 years of discourse about the new public management and economic rationalism a much older discourse is slipping back into ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.00205

Complexity and Public Policy

Robert Geyer, Samir Rihani • Routledge eBooks (2012)

This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the internat...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203856925