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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enriching Software Engineering Gamification Environments with Social Information
Motivation: There has been a recent focus on the potential benefits of using gamification techniques to increase motivation and improve performance in Software Engineering environments. Problem: While many gam...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effects of Class Balance on the Training Energy Consumption of Logistic Regression Models
The presence of Artificial Intelligence and specifically Machine Learning (ML) has increased in all manner of software applications, and it already plays a major role in a variety of systems pertaining to Inf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BizDevOps Support for Business Process Microservices-Based Applications
The DevOps (Development Operations) approach to software development has been progressively adopted in the last decade, to support the development, testing, continuous integration and deployment of software in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adding the Sustainability Dimension in Process Mining Discovery Algorithms Evaluation
Sustainability has captured the attention of the classical management of business processes. Organizations have become increasingly aware of the need to achieve information technology (IT)-enabled business pro...
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Article
Open AccessModel-driven management of BPMN-based business process families
Business processes can have variants depending on specific business requirements, which lead to the definition of a so-called business process family. Since conventional business process modeling languages, e.g.,...
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Article
Does maintainability relate to the energy consumption of software? A case study
Energy consumption of software has been becoming increasingly significant, since it can vary according to how the software has been developed. In recent years, developers and researchers have been interested i...
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Chapter
FEETINGS: Framework for Energy Efficiency Testing to Improve eNvironmental Goals of the Software
Energy consumption and carbon emissions caused by the use of software have been increasing in recent years, and it is necessary to increase the energy awareness of both software developers and end users.
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Chapter
GSMP: Green Software Measurement Process
To improve the sustainability of software it is necessary to be able to measure the energy efficiency of the software. For this purpose, there are several measuring instruments, but for these measurements to b...
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Chapter
The Importance of Software Sustainability in the CSR of Software Companies
Organizations around the world, as well as their stakeholders, are becoming increasingly aware of the need for, and the benefits of, socially responsible behavior, and sustainability is a core aspect of this. ...
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Article
Detailed Comparison of Methods for Classifying Bearing Failures Using Noisy Measurements
Rotary machines are key equipment in many industrial sectors, from mining operations to advanced manufacturing. Among the critical components of these machines are bearings, gearboxes, rotors, among others. Th...
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Article
Open AccessEndoluminal radiofrequency ablation of the main pancreatic duct is a secure and effective method to produce pancreatic atrophy and to achieve stump closure
Radiofrequency energy has been used both experimentally and clinically to manage the pancreatic remnant after distal pancreatectomies. Our goal was to determine whether endoluminal radiofrequency (RF) ablation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Experience in Modelling Business Process Architecture
We present a map** of a previously designed Business Process Architecture (BPA) meta-model onto ArchiMate, i.e., the de facto standard Enterprise Architecture (EA) modelling language. This construct map** all...
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Article
A case study about the improvement of business process models driven by indicators
Organizations are increasingly concerned about business process model improvement in their efforts to guarantee improved operational efficiency. Quality assurance of business process models should be addressed...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enriching Decision Making with Data-Based Thresholds of Process-Related KPIs
The continuous performance improvement of business processes usually involves the definition of a set of process performance indicators (PPIs) with their target values. These PPIs can be classified into lag PP...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Process Support with Which to Identify Interactions Between Quality Characteristics
Achieving a balance between the quality characteristics that need to be addressed during the development of a software product may determine the success of a software project. However, few software organizatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Framework to Support Software Quality Trade-Offs from a Process-Based Perspective
Organizations are attempting to provide software that will meet stakeholders’ quality requirements. Experts recognize that interactions between quality requirements might be conflictive. A trade-off study is a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Quality of Business Process Models
Business process improvement is a key aspect for organizational improvement. We focus the business process improvement in the first stage of process lifecycle, design stage, because it is a means to avoid the ...
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Article
Requirements and constructors for tailoring software processes: a systematic literature review
Organizations develo** software-based systems or services often need to tailor process reference models—including product-oriented and project-oriented processes—to meet both their own characteristics and th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards the Harmonization of Process and Product Oriented Software Quality Approaches
Software organizations are currently required to implement more than one software process improvement model concurrently. Several multimodel initiatives have appeared to support this situation, and existing pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
HProcessTOOL: A Support Tool in the Harmonization of Multiple Reference Models
If companies are to fulfil their business goals then they must implement more than one software process improvement or information technology management model. The heterogeneity of these models signifies that ...
