This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...
Component-based software development needs to formalize a process of generation, evaluation and selection of Composite COTS-based Software Systems (CCSS), enabling software archit...
With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...
Abstract. The use of software component models has become popular during the last decade, in particular in the development of software for desktop applications and distributed info...
Static software checking tools are useful as an additional automated software inspection step that can easily be integrated in the development cycle and assist in creating secure,...