In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based …

CONTEXT: Strategic release planning (sometimes referred to as road-mapping) is an
important phase of the requirements engineering process performed at product level. It is …

Mobile app stores provide a unique platform for developers to rapidly deploy new updates of
their apps. We studied the frequency of updates of 10,713 mobile apps (the top free 400 …

A Project Scheduling Problem consists in deciding who does what during the software
project lifetime. This is a capital issue in the practice of software engineering, since the total …

Software requirements arrive in different shapes and forms to development organizations.
This is particularly the case in market-driven requirements engineering, where the …

It is important for a software company to maximize value creation for a given investment. The
purpose of requirements engineering activities is to add business value that is accounted for …

The selection and prioritization of software requirements represents an area of interest in
Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) and its main focus is finding and selecting a set …

Project managers aim at keeping track of interdependencies between various artifacts of the
software development lifecycle, to find out potential requirements conflicts, to better …

One important issue addressed by software companies is to determine which features
should be included in the next release of their products, in such a way that the highest …

Software development projects don't get funded unless they return clearly defined value to
the business. Demands for shorter investment periods, faster time-to-market, and increased …