The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This d...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Who uses requirements engineering and design methodologies besides the people who invented them? Are researchers - at least - actually trying to use them in real-world complex proj...
Productivity data for IC designs indicates an exponential increase in design time and cost with the number of elements that are to be included in a device. Present applications re...
Douglas Densmore, Sanjay Rekhi, Alberto L. Sangiov...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...