The extraction of a code fragment into a separate method is one of the most widely
performed refactoring activities, since it allows the decomposition of large and complex …

Refactoring is recognized as an essential practice in the context of evolutionary and agile
software development. Recognizing the importance of the practice, modern IDEs provide …

Software can be considered a live entity, as it undergoes many alterations throughout its
lifecycle. Furthermore, developers do not usually retain a good design in favor of adding …

The goal of helping to automate the management of an individual's time is ambitious in
terms both of knowledge engineering and of the quality of the plans produced by an AI …

Intelligent calendar assistants have many years ago attracted researchers from the areas of
scheduling, machine learning and human computer interaction. However, all efforts have …

People with cognitive impairments, be it psychological conditions such as schizophrenia,
trauma induced impairments, intellectual disabilities or aging related conditions, often have …

In the last decade various research efforts and commercial offerings have sought to provide
levels of automated assistance with time management. Besides basic calendaring …

Intelligent Calendar Applications (ICA) have recently emerged as a very promising target
field for Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, since calendar applications are used daily by …

Presently most of the researchers focus on works in the area of pattern recognition,
computer networks, mobile computing, information security, image processing, data mining …

Emma is a personalized calendar management assistant. It integrates commercial
calendaring tools with state-of-the-art algorithms for scheduling, negotiation, and …