BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, allows hosts to be attached to multiple projects. Each host periodically requests jobs from project servers and executes the jo...
Objective: In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of motivation in Software Engineering. The objective of this review is to plot the landscape of current reporte...
Sarah Beecham, Nathan Baddoo, Tracy Hall, Hugh Rob...
In modern software systems, programs are obtained by dynamically assembling components. This has made it necessary to subject component providers to access-control restrictions. W...
Emmanuel Geay, Marco Pistoia, Takaaki Tateishi, Ba...
In this study of eight outsourcing projects, we seek to understand the mechanisms that companies put in place to coordinate knowledge work across their boundaries. We find that m...
Model transformations are a key element in the OMG’s Model Driven Development agenda. They did not begin here: the fundamental idea of transforming, automatically, one model into...