More and more organizations adopt software product lines to leverage extensive reuse and deliver a multitude of benefits such as increased quality and productivity and a decrease in cost and time-to-market of their software ...

The changing competitive landscape has brought new forces to bear on the manner in which new products are developed. These forces have put the creation and dissemination of knowledge at the centre of many firms’ new ...

Knowledge is a source of intelligence and both knowledge representation and knowledge management are crucial for intelligent systems. Well employed knowledge helps such systems become aware of situations, recognize states ...

Intelligent systems are capable of AI exhibited via knowledge representation and reasoning, which helps to connect abstract knowledge symbols to real-world meanings. This paper presents a formal language for knowledge ...

Self-adaptation is the ability of a system to adapt its behavior and/or computational structures to changes in the execution environment. The paradigm requires that the system engages in various interactions where ...

Choosing the appropriate software development methodology is something which continues to occupy the minds of many IT professionals. The introduction of “Agile” development methodologies such as XP and SCRUM held the promise ...

As the Software Engineering landscape continues to evolve and new paradigms are introduced, there can be a tendency for both industry and academia to enthusiastically embrace new approaches and march forward under whatever ...

In this paper we use an established framework as a focusing tool to provide a summary of the first author’s experiences of GSD in an “Information System” (IS) team of a global supplychain-management company operating within ...

It is increasingly understood across the information technology and services sector that engagement with the open source software model can serve as a means for firms to capture intellectual energy, learn about productive ...