— The integration of advanced computation, wireless communication, and control technologies has facilitated the creation of autonomous robot swarms for many civil and military ap...
—The fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence are converging toward the vision of smart robotic environments, in which tasks are performed via the cooperation of m...
— The objective of this paper is decentralized swarm aggregation with collision avoidance. Specifically, each agent is assigned with a control law which is the sum of two elemen...
—Path planning for mobile robots is a well researched problem for over three decades. In this paper, we test and evaluate a new approach based on Shi and Karl Level Sets for mobi...
Continuous improvement of software development capability is fundamental for organizations to thrive in competitive markets. Nevertheless, Software Process Improvement (SPI) imple...
Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha, Mariano Montoni, K...
This paper describes an initiative to improve software acquisition process in Brazil. This initiative was conducted in the context of the MPS.BR Program, a nationwide effort to de...
Kival Chaves Weber, Eratostenes Edson Ramalho de A...
The milestones of the history of software development are paradigm shifts. Each paradigm brought its own features and new ways of composing them to assemble software systems. Unde...
– Systematic reviews on software engineering literature have shown an insufficient experimental validation of claims, when compared to the standard practice in other wellestablis...