Recent work with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has allowed for external access to five
of JPL's real-world requirements models, anonymized to conceal proprietary information, but …

Solutions to non-linear requirements engineering problems may be “brittle”; ie small
changes may dramatically alter solution effectiveness. Hence, it is not enough to just …

Finding a near‐optimal solution to a complex design problem is challenging. On the one
hand the problem space is too large and convoluted for human comprehension, while on the …

Data scarcity has been a problem in data mining up until recent times. Now, in the era of the
Internet and the tremendous advances in both, data storage devices and high-speed …

Background: Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) uses a variety of techniques such
as evolutionary algorithms or meta-heuristic searches but lacks a standard baseline method …

Modern business practices are complex. Consider, for example, NASA's software IV&V
(independent verification and validation) team that monitors a diverse range of complex …

Early life cycle risk models can represent the requirements that a development group would
want to achieve, the risks that could prevent these requirements from being met, and …

Model-based software has become quite popular in recent years, making its way into a
broad range of areas, including the aerospace industry. The models provide an easy …

The study of software architecture is gaining importance due to the critical role it plays in
most methodologies of software engineering. Various architectural attributes including error …

Today, in the age of information, data is gathered everywhere. At work, every time a badge is
swiped, a log is created and saved into a database. At the supermarket, every transaction is …