Software designers in the object-oriented paradigm can make use of modeling tools and standard notations such as UML. Nevertheless, casual observations from collocated design coll...
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...
—Driven by market needs and laws, automotive manufacturers develop ever more feature-rich and complex vehicles. This new functionality plays even an active role in driving, what ...
Recent advancements in communication systems enable the collaboration of virtual software design teams, breaking the barriers of time and distance. In this paper we address a criti...
Daniela E. Damian, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Brian R. Ga...
Situated Multi-Agents Systems (MAS), and other Agentbased systems, are often complex. Formal reasoning is needed to ensuring their correctness and structuring their development. E...