Surface water is heavily exposed to contamination as this is the ubiquitous source for most
of the water needs. This situation is exaggerated by the excessive population, heavy …

This article provides a systematic review of existing research on problematic smartphone
use (PSU) to guide other researchers in search of relevant studies, and to propose areas for …

Precision agriculture and Smart farming have become the essential backbone for
sustainable agricultural production by leveraging cutting edge remote sensing and …

Representative sampling appears rare in empirical software engineering research. Not all
studies need representative samples, but a general lack of representative sampling …

Context: Several tertiary studies have criticized the reporting of software engineering
secondary studies. Objective: Our objective is to identify guidelines for reporting software …

A variety of research methods and techniques are available to SE researchers, and while
several overviews exist, there is consistency neither in the research methods covered nor in …

The latest technical and interaction advancements that took place in the Virtual Reality (VR)
field have marked a new era, not only for VR, but also for VR locomotion. Although the latest …

This paper provides a review of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) applications to flood
risk management, seeking to highlight trends and identify research gaps. A total of 128 peer …

The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Thematic analysis is an approach that is often used for identifying, analyzing, and reporting
patterns (themes) within data in primary qualitative research.'Thematic synthesis' draws on …