Background: The development of scientific software applications is far from trivial, due to the
constant increase in the necessary complexity of these applications, their increasing size …

Software reuse is a widely adopted practice among both researchers and practitioners. The
relation between security and reuse can go both ways: a system can become more secure …

Humans show emotion through different channels such as facial expression, head poses,
gaze patterns, bodily gestures, and speech prosody, but also through physiological signals …

Technical Debt Management (TDM) has drawn the attention of software industries during the
last years, including embedded systems. However, we currently lack an overview of how …

During the last years the TD community is striving to offer methods and tools for reducing the
amount of TD, but also understand the underlying concepts. One popular practice that still …

The embedded systems domain has grown exponentially over the past years. The industry
is forced by the market to rapidly improve and release new products to beat the competition …

Context In embedded software industry, stakeholders usually promote run-time properties
(eg, performance, energy efficiency, etc.) as quality drivers, which in many cases leads to a …

Context GoF patterns have been extensively studied with respect to the benefit they provide
as problem-solving, communication and quality improvement mechanisms. The latter has …

Researchers have been develo** AI-based mod-eling assistants to help software
modelers efficiently construct models. However, there are a number of issues with the …

Reuse is a common and often-advocated software development practice. Significant efforts
have been invested into facilitating it, leading to advancements such as software forges …