This paper summarizes PLEASE 2013, the fourth edition of the PLEASE workshop series. The main goal of PLEASE is to encourage and promote the adoption of Software Product Line Engineering. To this end, we aim at ...

The ability to identify the behavior of people in a home is at the core of Smart Home functionality. Such environments are equipped with sensors that unobtrusively capture information about the occupants. Reasoning mechanisms ...

The increasingly dynamic nature of resource discovery and binding in modern large-scale distributed and mobile systems poses significant challenges for existing middleware platforms. Future platforms must provide strong ...

Rapid increase in number of vehicles on the roads as well as growing size of cities have led to a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as traffic congestion, accidents and air pollution. ...

The Global Teaming Model (GTM) is a CMMI (R) -style process model comprising 64 recommendations that synthesizes empirical evidence on how to overcome the obstacles faced by global software development projects.While the ...

This article explores how agile practices can reduce three kinds of “distance” — temporal, geographical,and sociocultural — in global software development (GSD). On the basis of two indepth case studies, specific Scrum and ...

The notion of agreement is widely regarded as an essential aspect of the software requirements process, and sometimes as a vital ingredient of a software requirements specification. However, while some form of agreement ...

In recent years, there has been significant growth in software companies across the healthcare sector developing new technologies to improve healthcare delivery and services. This has given rise to the emergence of ...