Unfortunately, much of what has been written about software engineering comes from an
academic perspective which does not always address the everyday concerns that software …

The myExperiment virtual research environment supports the sharing of research objects
used by scientists, such as scientific workflows. For researchers it is both a social …

By making research content more reusable, and providing a social infrastructure that
facilitates sharing, the human aspects of the scholarly knowledge cycle may be accelerated …

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers often make a single contribution to a
project and then no more, making project management difficult. To improve understanding …

The authors propose a risks evaluation model for research projects. The model is based on
fuzzy inference. The knowledge base for fuzzy process is built with a causal and cognitive …

Virtual research environments (VREs) aim to enhance research practice and have been
identified as drivers for changes in libraries. This paper argues that VREs in combination …

Usability is critically important in developing tourism websites because visitors expect
tourism websites to be attractive, interactive and informative. The main aim of this paper is to …

myExperiment is an open repository solution for the born-digital items arising in
contemporary research practice, in particular scientific workflows and experiment plans …

In this paper, we outline preliminary findings from an ongoing study we have been
conducting over the past 18 months of researchers' use of myExperiment, a Web 2.0-based …

High-power fibre laser systems are an emerging technology for compact, robust and stable
generation of ultrashort pulses. Their power levels have now converged with the power …