• An Approach to Evaluate the Complexity of Block-Based Software Products 

  Fronza I; Corral L; Pahl C (2020)

  Computer programming skills have been growing as a professional competence also to unqualified end-users who need to develop software in their professional practice. Quality evaluation models of end-user-developed products ...
• Conflict resolution in group decision making: insights from a simulation study 

  Nguyen TN; Ricci F; Delic A; Bridge D (2019)

  An individual’s conflict resolution styles can have a large impact on the decision making process of a group. This impact is affected by a variety of factors, such as the group size, the similarity of the group members, ...
• IDE Interaction Support with Command Recommender Systems 

  Gasparic M; Ricci F (2020)

  Software developers' knowledge of integrated development environment (IDE) directly impacts on their productivity. IDE command recommender systems aim at identifying and convincingly presenting to software developers ...
• IEC 61131-3 Software Testing: a Portable Solution for native applications 

  Hofer F; Russo B (2020)

  Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are the most used digital systems in manufacturing industry, but there is little support for test automation of such systems. As net result, testing is mostly done manually or not at ...
• Scalability Assessment of Microservice Architecture Deployment Configurations: A Domain-based Approach Leveraging Operational Profiles and Load Tests 

  Avritzer A; Ferme V; Janes A; Russo B; van Hoorn A; Schulz H; Menasché D; Rufino V (2020)

  Microservices have emerged as an architectural style for developing distributed applications. Assessing the performance of architectural configurations - e.g., with respect to deployment alternatives - is challenging and ...
• Inconsistency-tolerant reasoning with OWL DL 

  Zhang X; Xiao G; Lin Z; Bussche JV (2014)

  The Web Ontology Language. (OWL) is a family of description logic based ontology languages for the Semantic Web and gives well defined meaning to web accessible information and services. The study of inconsistency-tolerant ...
• Cooperation, collaboration and pair-programming: Field studies on backup behavior 

  Coman I; Robillard PN; Sillitti A; Succi G (2014)

  Considering that pair programming has been extensively studied for more than a decade, it can seem quite surprising that there is such a lack of consensus on both its best use and its benefits. We argue that pair programming ...
• Classifying Software Bug Reports Using Methods from Formal Concept Analysis 

  Borchmann D; Penaloza R; Wang W (2014)

  We provide experience in applying methods from formal concept analysis to the problem of classifying software bug reports characterized by distinguished features. More specifically, we investigate the situation where we ...
• What do we know about software development in startups? 

  Giardino C; Unterkalmasteiner M; Paternoster N; Gorschek T; Abrahamsson PK (2014)

  An impressive number of new startups are launched every day as a result of growing new markets, accessible technologies, and venture capital. New ventures such as Facebook, Supercell, Linkedin, Spotify, WhatsApp, and ...
• An elicitation instrument for operationalising GQM+Strategies (GQM+S-EI) 

  Petersen K; Gencel C; Asghari N; Betz S (2015)

  A recent approach for measurement program planning, GQM+Strategies, provides an important extension to existing approaches linking measurements and improvement activities to strategic goals and ways to achieve these goals. ...
• A Study of Energy-Aware Implementation Techniques: Redistribution of Computational Jobs in Mobile Apps 

  Corral L; Georgiev A; Sillitti A; Succi G (2015)

  As devices like smartphones and tablets have been adopted by millions of users, the offer of mobile software products and services has as well evolved significantly. Current mobile software products require hardware ...
• Software development in startup companies: A systematic mapping study 

  Paternoster N; Giardino C; Unterkalmasteiner M; Gorschek T; Abrahamsson PK (2014)

  Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing ...
• Engineering commitment-based business protocols with 2CL methodology 

  Baldoni M; Baroglio C; Marengo E; Patti V; Capuzzimati F (2014)

  Enterprises must respect a number of regulations, with multilevel nature and which change along time. They must not only adapt their business interactions to the regulations and their changes but also evaluate the risks ...
• Consistency reasoning in lattice-based fuzzy description logics 

  Borgwardt S; Penaloza R (2014)

  Fuzzy Description Logics have been widely studied as a formalism for representing and reasoning with vague knowledge. One of the most basic reasoning tasks in (fuzzy) Description Logics is to decide whether an ontology ...
• “Se dovessi dare un voto a questo laboratorio, darei nove”: Introduzione del Computational Thinking nella scuola secondaria di primo grado: Risultati dell’esperienza = "If I had to vote on this laboratory, I would give nine": Introduction on Computational Thinking in the lower secondary school: Results of the experience 

  Fronza I; El Ioini N; Janes A; Sillitti A; Succi G; Corral Velazquez LR (2014)

  Spesso l’Informatica, a differenza di altre discipline (come la matematica o la filosofia), non è percepita come una disciplina scientifica ma solo come un utilizzo della tecnologia. L’educazione al pensiero algoritmico, ...
• DIE: A domain specific aspect language for IDE events 

  Fabry J; Robbes R; Denker M (IICM, 2014)

  Integrated development environments (IDEs) have become the primary way to develop software. Besides just using the built-in features, it becomes more and more important to be able to extend the IDE with new features and ...
• An empirical study on the impact of static typing on software maintainability 

  Hanenberg S; Kleinschmager S; Robbes R; Tanter É; Stefik A (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014)

  Static type systems play an essential role in contemporary programming languages. Despite their importance, whether static type systems impact human software development capabilities remains open. One frequently mentioned ...
• Answering Regular Path Queries in Expressive Description Logics via Alternating Tree-Automata 

  Calvanese D; Eiter T; Ortiz M (2014)

  Expressive Description Logics (DLs) have been advocated as formalisms for modeling the domain of interest in various application areas, including the Semantic Web, data and information integration, peer-to-peer data ...
• “Un Mooc a scuola”, approcci e prospettive = MOOC in school, approaches and perspectives 

  Ravanelli F; Del Fatto V; Dodero G; Gennari R; Mastachi N; Franceschini B; Macola C (Aica, 2014)

  Il potenziamento e lo sviluppo delle tecnologie della rete Internet stanno sconvolgendo rapidamente i paradigmi della pedagogia e della didattica e trasformando gli ambienti e i metodi di apprendimento tradizionali. Sono ...
• Methods of biological network inference for reverse engineering cancer chemoresistance mechanisms 

  Lecca P (Elsevier Ltd, 2014)

  We review recent Bayesian network inference methodologies we developed to infer genetic and metabolic pathways associated to oncological drug chemoresistance. Bayesian inference is supported by a rigorous and widely accepted ...

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