Design is an inherently multidisciplinary endeavor. This raises the question of how to develop systems in ways that can best leverage the perspectives, practices, and knowledge ba...
Abstract A rich family of generic Information Extraction (IE) techniques have been developed by researchers nowadays. This paper proposes WebKER, a system for automatically extract...
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Nowadays, due to the lack of face-to-face contact, distance course instructors have real difficulties knowing who their students are, how their students behave in the virtual cour...