Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
Under current U.S. law and common understanding, the fundamental right granted by copyright is the right of reproduction – of making copies. Indeed, the very word “copyright”...
Data dissemination in pervasive environments is often accomplished by on-demand broadcasting. The time critical nature of the data requests plays an important role in scheduling t...
Abstract—Stakeholders from several domains with local terminologies have to work together to develop and operate softwareintensive systems, like production automation systems. On...