Context: Research quality is intended to appraise the design and reporting of studies. It
comprises a set of standards such as methodological rigor, practical relevance, and …

The pervasive role played by software in virtually all industries has fostered ever-increasing
development of applied research in software engineering. In this chapter, we contribute our …

Background/Context: Gathering empirical knowledge is a time consuming task and the
results from empirical studies often are soon outdated by new technological solutions. As a …

Background: The mobility domains are moving towards the adoption of multicore
technology. Appropriate methods, techniques, and tools need to be developed or adapted in …

Remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery provides, at each pixel, a radiance spectrum with
up to hundreds of distinct wavelength channels. This high-dimensional spectral information …

Objective: We aim to better understand what constitutes research quality from the
perspective of the empirical software engineering community. In particular, we intend to …

It is not frequent to find testimonies on legal cases in which electronic government has reality
by means of the development of concrete applications. The article shows one of those …

Conducting empirical studies and transferring their results into industry in a design discipline
such as software engineering is ambitious. This is due to contextual restrictions …