Our ability to improve decision making in software development hinges on understanding how decisions are made, and which approaches to decision making are better than others. Howev...
One of the key directions in complexity theory which has also filtered through to cryptographic research, is the effort to classify related but seemingly distinct notions. Separa...
The paper develops a generic framework for analyzing knowledge management in formal decision groups and applies it to council work. Requirements are deduced for a sociotechnical s...
A safety case should provide a clear, comprehensible and defensible argument, supported by evidence, that a system is acceptably safe to operate in a particular environment. This a...
Deriving products from a software product line is difficult, particularly when there are many constraints in the variability of the product line. Understanding the impact of variab...