Many proposals for electronic payment systems (EPS) have been made but the great majority have failed to achieve widespread adoption. The reasons why some proposals succeed and ot...
Recently the awareness of the importance of replicating studies has been growing in the empirical software engineering community. The results of any one study cannot simply be ext...
Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Jeffrey Carver, J...
In dangerous and uncertain environments initial plans must be revised. Communication failures hamper this replanning. We introduce fractured subteams as a novel formalism for mode...
Increased performance is the key reason for developing software with virtual teams but the research efforts to date are limited. Difficulties for a formal, generic approach are mul...
In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...