Many software systems run on long-lifespan platforms that operate in diverse and dynamic environments. If these software systems could automatically adapt to hardware changes, it would significantly reduce the maintenance cost and enable rapid upgrad...
Background/Objectives: Software changes and technical failures can alter the treatment delivered by a digital intervention or the data used to evaluate it. In trials alongside pharmacotherapy, medication use and replacement care may also affect the c...
Software defect prediction is becoming key for software quality assurance. Traditional software defect prediction approaches have predominantly focused on analyzing code-level metrics, often overlooking valuable information available during the requi...
The procedures used to create modern cars require extensive thought in various relevant scientific domains. Arguably, the most challenging obstacle facing the automobile sector is the management of production facilities by integrating software produc...
This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the Digital Imaging software in the prediction of soft tissue changes following three types of orthodontic interventions: non-extraction, extraction, and orthognathic surgery treatments. Ninety-six patient...
Opioid prescribing and dispensing from emergency departments is a noteworthy issue given widespread opioid misuse and diversion in many countries, contributing both physical and economic harm to the population. High patient numbers and the stochastic...
Software repositories such as Git are significant sources of metadata about software projects, containing information such as modified files, change authors, and often commentary describing the change. An emerging approach to support software change...
Various prediction models have been proposed by researchers to predict the change-proneness of classes based on source code metrics. However, some of these models suffer from low prediction accuracy because datasets exhibit high dimensionality or imb...
Over the past few decades, extensive research has been conducted on software reliability growth models based on the non-homogeneous Poisson process. However, most existing studies rely on the premise of perfect debugging, failing to fully consider ke...
This study focuses on digital operational knowledge belonging to natural persons and proposes a greenfield approach to differentiate the value of intangibles from that of human intellectual capital. Our research approach involves two assessments. Ass...
Land cover changes in mountainous areas due to silvo-pastoral abandonment can affect soil stability, especially on steep slopes. In addition, the increase in rainfall intensity in recent decades requires re-assessing landslide susceptibility and vege...
This study aims to assess how the performance of Change Control Boards (CCBs) influences the relationship between requirements uncertainty and the Time to Market (TTM) of software projects in emerging markets. We collected data through a structured q...
Software maintenance is one of the key stages in the software lifecycle and it includes a variety of activities that consume the significant portion of the costs of a software project. Previous research suggest that future software maintainability ca...
The seawater refractive index is an important parameter in marine environments, with its variations depending on the specific environmental conditions. During practical applications, modulation parameters such as the sampling rate, bandwidth, and fil...
Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are major sources of inefficiencies in product development and increase the risk of project failure. Risk management regarding these requirement changes yields the potential to handle su...
The software industry plays a vital role in driving technological advancements. Software projects are complex and consist of many components, so change is unavoidable in these projects. The change in software requirements must be predicted early to p...
Monitoring software architecture evolution is essential for maintaining system quality, but many practical change-detection pipelines still rely on syntactic differences. Such pipelines can produce large review streams in which minor edits, refactori...
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the integration of machine learning into daily radiological diagnostics, using the example of the machine learning software mdbrain® (Mediaire GmbH, Germany) in the diagnostic MRI workflow o...
Introduction: Abdominal oncologic surgeries pose significant risks due to the complexity of the surgery and patients’ often weakened health, multiple comorbidities, and increased perioperative hazards. Hypotension is a major risk factor for per...
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two major threats to the world. Ecosystem conservation is an important issue for humanity, and international intergovernmental science-policy platforms highlight the mutually beneficial relationships among bio...
Smart mobility is crucial for future smart cities. Traffic simulation software (TSS) is an important tool for efficient planning and management of road networks to achieve this goal. Many TSS tools have been developed for both microscopic and macrosc...
Heatwave (HW) number (HWN), frequency (HWF), duration (HWD), magnitude (HWM), and amplitude (HWA) are key aspects for interpreting and understanding HW characteristics worldwide. Most previous HW studies over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) focused...
As software systems evolve, they become more complex and larger, creating challenges in predicting change propagation while maintaining system stability and functionality. Existing studies have explored extracting co-change patterns from changelog da...
Design patterns provide solutions to recurring problems in software design and development, promoting scalability, readability, and maintainability. While past research focused on the utilization of the design patterns and performance, there is limit...
Software evolution is driven by changes made during software development and maintenance. While source control systems effectively manage these changes at the commit level, the intent behind them are often inadequately documented, making understandin...
Aim: Recently, the most commonly used for multiple breath washout device, the Exhalyzer D, has been shown to overestimate lung clearance index (LCI) results due to a software error. Our study aimed to compare the predictive values of LCI in the CF pu...
Landslides are widespread and global geological disasters, affecting millions of people and causing numerous deaths each year. Despite technological advances, it is still difficult to accurately prevent landslides. Due to its geography and climatic c...
Research software is currently used by a large number of scientists on a daily basis, and everything indicates that this trend will continue to increase in the future. Most of this scientific software is very often developed by the researchers themse...
Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are major sources of inefficiencies in product development and increase the risk of project failure. Proactive change management of requirement changes yields the potential to handle suc...
Evolving Earth observation and change detection techniques enable the automatic identification of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) over a large extent from massive amounts of remote sensing data. It at the same time poses a major challenge in e...
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Climate change scenarios show that water availability could be decreasing in the near future, adding to the increasing problem of the growing water demands in socioeconomic sectors. The aim of this work was to generate a geographically explicit water...
Anthropogenically-induced climate change is expected to be the contributing cause of sea level rise and severe storm events in the immediate future. While Danish authorities have downscaled the future oscillation of sea level rise across Danish coast...
To date, a variety of species potential distribution mapping approaches have been used, and the agreement in maps produced with different methodological approaches should be assessed. The aims of this study were: (1) to model Maritime pine potential...
This report describes the case of a patient who required rehabilitation of their maxillary anterior teeth following a traumatic injury through a physical altercation. The decision was made to extract the maxillary central incisors and maxillary right...
Climate change affects surface water quality parameters, including river quality. This study analyses changes in climate parameters, specifically air temperature and solar radiation, and their impact on river water temperature. It also examines how c...
Urban flood frequency analysis faces unique challenges as land development alters watershed hydrology, producing nonstationary flood records. This study demonstrates nonstationary flood frequency analysis (NSFFA) using RMC-BestFit, an open-source Bay...
This study analyses the impacts of winter storms on beach response, as well as the subsequent recovery during spring and summer, at a dissipative sandy beach in Brandon Bay, Ireland. Shoreline dynamics were assessed through the integration of field d...
The increasing availability of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is opening new opportunities for operational support to predictive maintenance and emergency actions. With the purpose of investigating the performances of SAR images char...
This paper investigates the capabilities and limitations of different software tools simulating landscape design adaptability. The evaluation of tools is based on the ISO 25010 framework, which investigates software functionality, reliability, perfor...
The increasing implementation of digital technologies has various positive impacts on companies. However, many companies often rush into such an implementation of technological trends without sufficient preparation and pay insufficient attention to t...
Environmental factors might influence the carbon balance and sugar content in grapevine. In this two-year research, the STELLA software was employed to predict dry matter accumulation in Sangiovese vines, comparing the traditional vertical shoot posi...
(1) Background: Several opportunities have appeared for the dissemination of culture and heritage thanks in part to the widespread use of information and communications technologies. Virtual museums have appeared as innovative technological products...
Current intensification and changes in agricultural land use practices increase environmental impact that can be reduced by bridging the gap between socio-economic demands and scientific justification of sustainable agricultural land use. This can be...
Active satellite remote sensors have emerged in the last years in the field of archaeology, providing new tools for monitoring extensive cultural heritage landscapes and areas. These active sensors, namely synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, p...
Software requirement changes, code changes, software reuse, and testing are important activities in software engineering that involve the traceability links between software requirements and code. Software requirement documents, design documents, cod...
The field of self-adaptive software is becoming increasingly crucial because software has to adapt its behavior at runtime to keep up with dynamic and constantly evolving environments. The ability of software to modify and adjust itself is known as a...
With the latest technological developments, the software industry is at the center of the fourth industrial revolution. In today’s complex and rapidly changing environment, where software applications must be developed quickly and easily, softw...
In recent years, software development models have undergone changes. In order to meet user needs and functional changes, open-source software continuously improves its software quality through successive releases. Due to the iterative development pro...
Software products in the market are changing due to changes in business processes, technology, or new requirements from the customers. Maintainability of legacy systems has always been an inspiring task for the software companies. In order to determi...
In the past, because computer programs were restricted to perform only simple functions, the dependence on software was not large, resulting in relatively small losses after a failure. However, with the development of the software market, the depende...
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