There is a great need to assure and improve the reliability and quality of software. Software inspections were introduced over 30 years ago as an answer for this need and they have inspired a lot of research covering many different kinds of aspects. There is a need for an up-to-date survey revealing the current state and the overall evolution of the most prominent research on the area. This pap...

Active networks address the problem of slow network evolution, when compared with the evolution of applications. The active approach builds programmability into the network, so that new protocols and functionalities may be added later. While classical, “passive” routers all implement the same functionality, the active routers all implement the same computational model. The active technology is ...

0

Surveys reflect societal change in a way that few other research tools do. Over the past two decades, three developments have transformed surveys. First, survey organizations have adopted new methods for selecting telephone samples; these new methods were made possible by the creation of large databases that include all listed telephone numbers in the United States. A second development has bee...

Whole-watershed accounting assesses all surface and groundwater flows and storage over a large area. The idea is to account for all the major sources of water at once, rather than focusing on only a portion of them, such as what’s stored in surface water reservoirs. This work can reveal how joint management of surface and groundwater flows and storage could increase the overall amount of water ...

Social commerce is a field that is growing rapidly with the rise of Web 2.0 technologies. This paper presents a review of existing research on this topic to ensure a comprehensive understanding of social commerce. First, we explore the evolution of social commerce from its marketing origins. Next, we examine various definitions of social commerce and the motivations behind it. We also investiga...

Editors: Anna Satsiou, Leandros Tassiulas Contributors: Anna Satsiou (CERTH), Raffaele Bruno (CNR), Andrea Passarella (CNR), Karl Aberer (EPFL), Thanasis Papaioannou (EPFL), Stephan Neuhaus (ETH), Bart Lannoo (IBBT) , Mathieu Tahon (IBBT), Sofie Verbrugge (IBBT), Marlies Van der Wee (IBBT), Rob Heyman (IBBT-SMIT), Jo Pierson (IBBT-SMIT), Andrea Scharnhorst (KNAW), Paolo Dini (LSE), Simone Basso...

NFRs are important since the system architecture greatly depends on the NFRs [20]. Mostly NFR Literature has considered only for key challenges and issues related to NFR. In context of such a need a roadmap for important issues is required. In this paper survey has been presented on interesting ongoing work in the field of non functional requirements and tried to figure out the approaches and m...

The complete instruction-by-instruction simulation of one computer system on a different system is a well-known computing technique. It is often used for software develop­ ment when a hardware base is being altered. For example, if a programmer is developing software for some new special purpose (e.g., aerospace) computer X which is under construction and as yet unavailable, he will likely begi...

Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist method of research” (Harding, 1987; see also Chafetz, 2004a, 2004b; Fonow & Cook, 2005; Hawkesworth, 2006; Hesse-Biber, 2007; Risman, Sprague, & Howard, 1993; and Sprague, 2005). And yet, to this da...