: Narrowing the wide conceptual gap between problem and implementation domains is considered a significant factor within software engineering. Currently, such a relation is often o...
Support vector machines are a valuable tool for making classifications, but their black-box nature means that they lack the natural explanatory value that many other classifiers po...
David Barbella, Sami Benzaid, Janara M. Christense...
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...
Social annotation systems such as SparTag.us and del.icio.us have been designed to encourage individual reading and marking behaviors that, when shared, accumulate to build collect...
Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Peter Pirolli, Li...
Code and design smells are recurring design problems in software systems that must be identified to avoid their possible negative consequences on development and maintenance. Conse...