— It is through our mental models of the world that we understand it. Advances in science are nothing more than improvements to the model. This paper presents the development and...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
This paper presents an analysis of user studies from a review of papers describing new visualisation applications and uses these to highlight various issues related to the evaluat...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
Teaching fundamental programming to freshmen is a hard task to be performed, given the high level action and logical reasoning that are required for these students to develop in a...
Cristiane Camilo Hernandez, Luciano Silva, Rafael ...