Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software d...
New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a give...
Estimating the effort required for software process activities continues to present difficulties for software engineers, particularly given the uncertainty and subjectivity associ...
This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...
Microsoft is producing high-quality documentation for Windows client-server and server-server protocols. Our group in the Windows organization is responsible for verifying the doc...
Wolfgang Grieskamp, Nicolas Kicillof, Dave MacDona...