In the US continued and increased issuance of software and business method patents is criticized by many. Some argue that software and business method patents do not stimulate inn...
Abstract—Today, software product line engineering concentrates on tailoring the functionality of programs. However, we and others observed an increasing interest in non-functiona...
Norbert Siegmund, Martin Kuhlemann, Mario Pukall, ...
Abstract—Software systems inherently contain vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the past resulting in significant revenue losses. The study of vulnerability life cycles...
Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. ...
Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in many areas of software development. Although superimposition is a general-purpose concept, it has ...
This paper presents an approach for improving final software system usability by designing for usability, in particular by addressing usability issues in the software architecture...