A trust and reputation mechanism is a mechanism using consumers' feedbacks to identify
good services from bad ones. Compared with other approaches, it has more advantages in …

Background: There is a major campaign involving large expenditures of public money to
increase the adoption rate of electronic health record (EHR) systems in Canada. To …

Background Bioinformatics software is developed for collecting, analyzing, integrating, and
interpreting life science datasets that are often enormous. Bioinformatics engineers often …

Quality is becoming increasingly important with the continuous adoption of open-source
software. Previous research has found that there is generally a positive relationship between …

Motivation The volume of biomedical data generated each year is growing exponentially as
high-throughput molecular, imaging and mHealth technologies expand. This rise in data …

Recent studies on open-source software (OSS) products report that smaller modules are
proportionally more defect prone compared to larger ones. This phenomenon, referred to as …

As software engineering educators, it is important for us to realize the increasing domain-
specificity of software, and incorporate these changes in our design of teaching material …

Scientists who develop software as part of their work often have to make a decision about
whether and when to release their code as open source. Many of us, in alignment with the …

Computable biomedical knowledge artifacts (CBKs) are software programs that transform
input data into practical output. CBKs are expected to play a critical role in the future of …

To report the implementation of an open source web survey application and a case study of
its first utilisation, particularly as to aspects of logistics and response behaviour, in a survey …