Academic Articles & Research Papers

Metamodelling for software engineering

This book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a common framework. Issues covered include: *...

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap

Challenges in automotive software engineering

The amount of software in cars grows exponentially. Driving forces of this development are cheaper and more powerful hardware and the demand for innovations by new functions. The rapid increase of software and software based functionality b...

Value-based software engineering

Much of current software engineering practice and research is done in a value-neutral setting, in which every requirement, use case, object, and defect is treated as equally important; methods are presented and practiced as largely logical ...

International Conference on Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

On behalf of all members of the organizing committee, we are delighted to welcome everyone to the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2022. The event continu...

Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering

BACKGROUND: A software engineering systematic map is a defined method to build a classification scheme and structure a software engineering field of interest. The analysis of results focuses on frequencies of publications for categories wit...

Knowledge management in software engineering

Software organizations’ main assets are not plants, buildings, or \nexpensive machines. A software organization’s main asset is its intellectual \ncapital, as it is in sectors such as consulting, law, investment \nbanking, and advertising. ...

Search-based software engineering

In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based Optimization (SBO) algorithms are used to address problems in SE. ...

Performance Evaluation for Moving Target Tracking Algorithm Based on Orthogonal Test

The performance evaluation of existing moving target tracking algorithms has many drawbacks,such as massive amount of data,redundant tests and insufficient consideration on algorithm performance under multifactor situation.Therefore,this pa...

Default Detection Rate-Dependent Software Reliability Model with Imperfect Debugging

From the perspective of FDR (fault detection rate), which is an indispensable component in reliability modeling, this paper proposes two kinds of reliability models under imperfect debugging. This model is a relatively flexible and unified ...

Spreading Social Influence with both Positive and Negative Opinions in Online Networks

Social networks are important media for spreading information, ideas, and influence among individuals. Most existing research focuses on understanding the characteristics of social networks, investigating how information is spread through t...

Holistic Parameter Optimization for Software Defect Prediction

A software defect prediction (SDP) model identifies the defect-prone modules. Setting appropriate parameters in an SDP model is critical because it affects the model performance. In a recent study, parameters were automatically explored usi...

FCM Clustering Algorithms for Segmentation of Brain MR Images

The study of brain disorders requires accurate tissue segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) brain images which is very important for detecting tumors, edema, and necrotic tissues. Segmentation of brain images, especially into three main t...

Logics of Statements in Context-Category Independent Basics

Based on a formalization of open formulas as statements in context, the paper presents a freshly new and abstract view of logics and specification formalisms. Generalizing concepts like sets of generators in Group Theory, underlying graph o...

Application of Robust Estimation for Time Synchronization and Retaining in Local Area Network

In view of the defect existed in the time synchronization of Local Area Network(LAN) using hardware and software methods,this paper introduces the principle of time synchronization in LAN and the method of robust estimation.The model of tim...

Improved PageRank Algorithm Based on User Behavior and Topic Similarity in Microblog Environment

Aiming at the theme drifting and the page weight splitting of traditional PageRank algorithm,an improved PageRank algorithm is proposed.In order to improve the user query efficiency and search quality,combined with the time feedback factor,...

Vlad - Virtual Reality Application for Treatment of Psychosomatic Conditions: A report at final stage of software validation process

The present work aims to demonstrate that Virtual Reality (VR) can investigate several pathologies, in this case the treatment of all phenomena which interrupt the relationship between cognition and representation, such as defences in psych...

Sentiment analysis for software engineering

Sentiment analysis has been applied to various software engineering (SE) tasks, such as evaluating app reviews or analyzing developers' emotions in commit messages. Studies indicate that sentiment analysis tools provide unreliable results w...

Advances in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

The papers collected in this book were invited by the editors as tutorial courses or keynote speeches for the Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. The book offers wide coverage of the main topic...