Articles - Computer Science

Developing Mashup Tools for End-Users: On the Importance of the Application Domain

Daniel F; Imran M; Soi S; De Angeli A; Wilkinson CR; Casati F; Marchese M (2012)

The recent emergence of mashup tools has refueled research on end-user development, i.e., on enabling end-users without programming skills to compose their own applications. Yet, similar to what happened with analogous ...

Knowledge transfer in system modeling and its realization through an optimal allocation of information granularity

Pedrycz W; Russo B; Succi G (2012)

In this study, we introduce and discuss a concept of knowledge transfer in system modeling. In a nutshell, knowledge transfer is about ways on how a source of knowledge (that is an existing model) can be used in presence ...

Enriching Archaeological Parks with Contextual Sounds and Mobile Technology

Ardito C; Costabile MF; De Angeli A; Lanzilotti R (2012)

The importance of cultural heritage in forging a sense of identity is becoming increasingly evident. Information and communication technologies have a great potential to promote a greater awareness and appreciation of ...

Adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software in public organizations: Factors of impact

Rossi B; Russo B; Succi G (2012)

Purpose – In this paper the authors aim to investigate the importance of factors for the adoption of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) in the public sector. They seek to evaluate how different factors impact during ...

Gender Affordances of Conversational Agents

Brahnam S; De Angeli A (2012)

Conversational agents are attributed humanlike characteristics; in particular, they are often assumed to have a gender. There is evidence that gender sets up expectations that have an impact on user experiences with the ...

Context-aware recommender systems

Adomavicius G; Mobasher B; Ricci F; Tuzhilin A (2011)

Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) generate more.relevant recommendations by adapting them to the specific contextual situation of the user. This article explores how contextual information can be used to create ...

Do patterns help novice evaluators? A comparative study

Lanzilotti R; Ardito C; Costabile MF; De Angeli A (2011)

Evaluating e-learning systems is a complex activity which requires considerations of several criteria addressing quality in use as well as educational quality. Heuristic evaluation is a widespread method for usability ...

Increasing Mobility in Older Adults. Early Findings from the “Devices for Assisted Living' Europe-wide project”.

Coventry L; Jones E; Wilkinson CR; De Angeli A (2012)

The number of over 65s in the European Union (EU) is predicted to almost double by 2060.Those over 80 will be almost triple 2008 figures (European Commission, 2009). Mobility per se, but particularly physical activity, is ...

A model of job satisfaction for collaborative development processes

Pedrycz W; Russo B; Succi G (2011)

Modern software development relies on collaborative work as a means for sharing knowledge, distributing tasks and responsibilities, reducing risk of failures, and increasing the overall quality of the software product. ...

Composite nanocellulose-based hydrogels with spatially oriented degradation and retarded release of macromolecules

Maestri CA; Motta A; Moschini L; Bernkop-Schnürch A; Baus RA; Lecca P; Scarpa M (John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2020)

The oral delivery of macromolecular therapeutics to the intestinal tract requires novel, robust, and controlled formulations. Here, we report on fabrication by molding of composite hydrogel cylinders made of cellulose ...

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 ...