In the modern digital era, software systems are extensively adapted and have become an
integral component of human society. Such wide use of software systems consists of large …

Designing tools that allow end users to easily control and manage a smart home is a critical
issue that researchers in Ambient Intelligence and Internet of Things have to address …

Computational biological models have proven to be an invaluable tool for understanding
and predicting the behaviour of many biological systems. While it may not be too …

During the last decades, software traceability has been studied in a large number of studies,
from different perspectives (eg, how to create traces and what are its benefits). This large …

This article focuses on the area of software development for microcontrollers and details the
implementation of modern programming practices and principles in embedded systems and …

In this paper we reflect on our decade-long journey of creating, evolving, and evaluating a
number of software design concepts and technical debt management technologies. These …

Secure Software Development (SSD) is becoming a major challenge, due to the increasing
complexity, openness and extensibility of Information and Communication Technologies …

As part of our research for microcontroller software support, we have developed a modular
framework that utilizes previously unimplemented architectural principles for develo** …

Unfortunately, sustainability is an issue very poorly used when develo** software and
hardware systems. Lately, and in order to contribute to the earth sustainability, a new …

Abstract Context: Object-Oriented Programming design patterns are well-known in the
industry and taught in universities as part of software engineering curricula. Many primary …