Made in Patriarchy II: Researching (or Re-Searching) Women and Design

Searching and Researching the Baltic Sea Region

The paper presents some examples of Polish coastal provinces’ co-operation initiatives and activities in the Baltic Sea region. The authors pay attention to those aspects of cooperation which have been taken by local municipalities and communities. In addition to initiatives taken within the wider context, a substantial number of actions engage a limited numbers of participants, differ in kind,...

A classification of RE papers: Are we researching or designing RE techniques?

Discussion of a paper in RE program committees is often complicated by lack of agreement about evaluation criteria to be applied to the paper. For some years now, successive program chairs have attempted to increase clarity by including a paper classification in their CFP, and making the evaluation criteria per paper class explicit. This short note presents a paper classification based on this ...

Plagiarism: Trespassing the Grey Zone Between Searching and Researching

Domestic Violence against Albanian Immigrant Women in Greece: Facing Patriarchy

Immigration is becoming an increasingly important policy concern in Europe and in many other nations. Importantly, there is an ever-growing number of women who migrate, many of whom are undocumented. Violence against immigrant women is nearly impossible to estimate. However, immigrant women who are abused face multiple barriers to seeking legal protection from the abuse as a result of their mig...

Researching Under Uncertainty 1 Design Rationale : Researching Under Uncertainty

Rationale research in software development is a challenging area because while there is no shortage of advocates for its value, there is also no shortage of reasons for why rationale is unlikely to be captured in practice. Despite more than thirty years of research there still remains much uncertainty—how useful are the potential benefits and how insurmountable are the barriers? Will the value ...