Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
Improvements in the software development process depend on our ability to collect and analyze data drawn from various phases of the development life cycle. Our design metrics rese...
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
When making an engineering design decision, it is often necessary to consider its implications on both system performance and dependability. In this paper, we present a performabi...
Ann T. Tai, William H. Sanders, Leon Alkalai, Savi...
Software maintenance costs dominate software engineering costs, partly because most such engineering is done manually. Program Transformation tools leverage an engineer-provided b...