CONTEXT: This systematic mapping review is set in a Global Software Engineering (GSE)
context, characterized by a highly distributed environment in which project team members …

We investigate the performance implications of supporting transaction atomicity in a
distributed real-time database system. Using a detailed simulation model of a firm-deadline …

Smart IoT applications require connecting multiple IoT devices and networks with multiple
services running in fog and cloud computing platforms. One approach to connecting IoT …

Software teams, as they communicate throughout the life-cycle of their projects, generate a
substantial stream of textual data. Through emails and chats, developers discuss the …

Communication plays a vital role throughout all the activities of software engineering
processes. As Web 2.0 paradigms concentrate on communication, collaboration, and …

Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software
systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much …

Several types of 3D software visualizations have been developed to communicate
information about the products of a software project and, sometimes, the development …

Software development is fundamentally a collaborative task. Developers, sometimes
geographically distributed, collectively work on different parts of a project. The challenge of …

Interdisciplinary design presents challenges in design collaboration due to the difficulty in
communicating and coordinating among disciplines. Many tools have been developed and …

Software development is an inherently team-based activity, and many software-engineering
courses are structured around team projects, in order to provide students with an authentic …