High quality software documentation is a substantial issue to understand software systems. Shorter time-to-market software cycles increase the importance of automatism to keep the documentation up to date. In this paper, we describe the automatic support of the software documentation process using a social semantic software approach. Therefore, we introduce a software documentation ontology as ...

After the concept of industry cluster was tangibly applied in many countries, SMEs trended to link to each other to maintain their competitiveness in the market. The major key success factors of the cluster are knowledge sharing and collaboration between partners. This knowledge is collected in form of tacit and explicit knowledge from experts and institutions within the cluster. The objective ...

Knowledge Management (KM) has become a critical component for maintaining competitive advantages. Most existing research looks at individual industries or general concepts; few studies have investigated KM use in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This research empirically investigates factors affecting the adoption of KM. Results indicate that important factors maturing of Information ...

With the evolution of an API library, its documentation also evolves. The evolution of API documentation is common knowledge for programmers and library developers, but not in a quantitative form. Without such quantitative knowledge, programmers may neglect important revisions of API documentation, and library developers may not effectively improve API documentation based on its revision histor...

In the pharmaceutical industry, products have to be described by a range of document types with overlapping content. Moreover, much of this documentation has to be produced in many languages. This situation is commonplace in many commercial domains, and leads to well-known problems in maintaining a set of related documents and their translations. We describe a potential solution explored in the...

Architectural documentation is often considered as a tedious and resource intensive task, that is usually skipped or performed inadequately. As a result the rationale of the architect’s decisions gets lost. This problem is known as architectural knowledge vaporization. We propose a documentation approach for architectural decisions concerning the application of software patterns. Based on the a...

Nowadays, it is difficult and inefficient to publish, retrieve, compare, evaluate and learn ideas and techniques about knowledge engineering since they are not organized into a semantic network but stored within informal documents and hence scattered and described in various ways across millions of such documents (research articles, documentations, emails, etc.). Our knowledge server WebKB-2 su...