IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...
The realization of multimedia systems still heavily relies on building monolithic systems that need to be reengineered for every change in the application and little of which can ...
The comprehensive understanding of today’s software systems is a daunting activity, because of the sheer size and complexity that such systems exhibit. Moreover, software system...
Legal regulations and industry standards require organizations to measure and maintain a specified IT-security level. Although several IT-security metrics approaches have been de...