Abstract Context: Software Engineering (SE) is an evolving discipline with new subareas
being continuously developed and added. To structure and better understand the SE body …

At present, the capability to collect information from different sources [building information
modeling (BIM), sensors, assets database] for asset management (AM) use has generated …

Taxonomies are classification systems that help researchers conceptualize phenomena
based on their dimensions and characteristics. To address the problem of 'ad-hoc'taxonomy …

The phenomena of global software development (GSD) face many challenges that are
specifically associated with software process improvement (SPI). The main objective of this …

Software organizations are increasingly combining agile methodologies and distributed
software development (DSD) for efficiently and effectively built software products. There are …

Increasingly, software development organizations are scaling agile practices in the global
software development (GSD) environment in order to meet the requirements of the quickly …

Software engineering is increasingly concerned with theory because the foundational
knowledge comprising theories provides a crucial counterpoint to the practical knowledge …

Software testing, as a major verification and validation activity which revolves around quality
tests, is a knowledge-intensive activity. Hence, it is reasonable to expect that it can be …

The main purpose of most software projects is to build an effective and efficient product that
satisfies the user's requirements under constraints of basic available resources. Thus …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) include multiple interacting agents within an environment to
provide a solution for complex systems that cannot be easily solved with individual agents or …