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    RDF Explorer: A Visual SPARQL Query Builder

    Despite the growing popularity of knowledge graphs for managing diverse data at large scale, users who wish to pose expressive queries against such graphs are often expected to know (i) how to formulate querie...

    Hernán Vargas, Carlos Buil-Aranda, Aidan Hogan in The Semantic Web – ISWC 2019 (2019)

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    Assessing Competition for Social Media Attention Among Non-profits

    Most non-profits maintain a social media presence with the hope to increase their popularity and achieve goals, such as to collect donations or recruit volunteers. While there is a strong vibe about the popula...

    Rosta Farzan, Claudia López in Social Informatics (2018)

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    Designing for Digital Inclusion: A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Civic Technology

    Digital inequalities are a major obstacle in diversifying the public discourse on the Internet. To explore the potential of a system design to help bridging digital inequalities across gender and race, we cond...

    Claudia López, Rosta Farzan in Social Informatics (2017)

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    Towards Adaptive Recruitment and Engagement Mechanisms in Social Systems

    Although successful online communities have engaged thousands of users, designers still struggle to recruit newcomers and increase current contribution rates. Related work on encouraging contributions has drawn f...

    Claudia López, Peter Brusilovsky in Advances in User Modeling (2012)

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    The Tutelkan SPI Framework for Small Settings: A Methodology Transfer Vehicle

    Software organizations aim to improve their processes to increase their productivity, competitiveness and performance. Although numerous standards and models have been proposed, their adoption among small orga...

    Gonzalo Valdes, Hernán Astudillo in Systems, Software and Services Process Imp… (2010)

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    Semantic-Aided Interactive Identification of Reusable NFR Knowledge Fragments

    Understanding Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and trade-offs among them is a key task for systems architects. Modeling notations have been proposed to represent NFRs and tradeoffs among them, yet identifica...

    Claudia López, Hernán Astudillo in On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems… (2008)

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    Identifying “Interesting” Component Assemblies for NFRs Using Imperfect Information

    Component-based software elaboration becomes unwieldy for some practical situations with large numbers of components for which information is imperfect (incomplete, imprecise and/or uncertain). This article ad...

    Hernán Astudillo, Javier Pereira, Claudia López in Software Architecture (2006)

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    Explicit Architectural Policies to Satisfy NFRs Using COTS

    Software architecture decisions hinge more on non-functional requirements (NFRs) than on functional ones, since the architecture stipulates which software to build. Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) aims to automat...

    Claudia López, Hernán Astudillo in Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference (2006)

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    Multidimensional Catalogs for Systematic Exploration of Component-Based Design Spaces

    Most component-based approaches to elaborate software require complete and consistent descriptions of components, but in practical settings components information is incomplete, imprecise and changing, and req...

    Claudia López, Hernán Astudillo in Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding t… (2006)

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    Evaluating Alternative COTS Assemblies from Imperfect Component Information

    Component-based approaches to elaborate software must deal with the fact that in practical settings, components information may be incomplete, imprecise and uncertain, and requirements may be likewise. Archite...

    Hernán Astudillo, Javier Pereira, Claudia López in Quality of Software Architectures (2006)