The technical debt (TD) in a software project refers to the adoption of an inadequate solution from its design to the source code. When developers admit the presence of technical debt in the source code, through comments or commit messages, it is cal...
Technical debt is a well understood and used concept in IT development. The metaphor, rooted in the financial world, captures the amount of work that development teams owe to a product. Every time developers take a shortcut within development, the te...
Technical debt refers to decisions made during the design and development of software that postpone the resolution of technical problems or the enhancement of the software’s features to a later date. If not properly managed, technical debt can...
This paper focuses on application of a technical debt prioritisation technique in telecommunication software managing a fleet of devices for a video surveillance system. Technical debt for this application was gathered, categorised and prioritised ac...
Environmental assumptions, which are expectations about a system’s operating context, play a critical yet often underexplored role in the emergence of requirements technical debt (RTD). When these assumptions are incorrect, incomplete, or evolv...
Technical debt (TD) has emerged as a significant concern in the development of AI/ML applications, where rapid experimentation, evolving objectives, and complex data pipelines often introduce hidden quality and maintainability issues. Within this bro...
Assumptions about environmental and operational conditions play a key role in the design of sensor-driven and cyber–physical systems. When these assumptions later change or prove incorrect, they can cause rework, inconsistency, and other forms...
Self-admitted technical debts (SATDs) refer to a solution in software development that selects suboptimal solutions to meet the current requirements and are intentionally introduced and documented by developers. SATDs in issue-tracking systems are a...
This paper presents an extended investigation into the role of environmental assumptions in the emergence and management of Requirements Technical Debt (RTD). Building on earlier work that identified environmental assumptions as a critical yet often...
This paper proposes a formal framework to model the propagation of software antipatterns across architectural layers, quantifying their impact using principles from complex systems theory, technical debt economics, and cognitive load theory. By exten...
Current Internet of Things (IoT) systems comprise multiple software systems that are deployed to provide users with the required functionalities. System architects create system blueprints and draw specifications for the software artefacts that are n...
The evolution of software systems often leads to its architectural degradation due to the presence of design problems. In the literature, design smells have been defined as indicators of such problems. In particular, the presence of design smells cou...
Domestic and foreign capital and consumption goods are imperfect substitutes in production and demand functions of the growth model by Bardhan–Lewis. We extend the model by introducing exogenous technical progress and allow for foreign debt dyn...
This study proposes a synthetic visual indicator with which to perform debt sustainability analysis using dynamic general equilibrium models. In a single diagram, we summarized the general equilibrium relationships among economic activity, government...
Different economic studies have been concentrated on specific and/or isolated factors to explain public debt evolution. In this article we have developed an integrated viewpoint based on financial, social and governance or institutional factors. Unde...
Agile approaches have gradually and widely gained adoption in the software industry, emphasizing the importance of individuals within software communities over processes or tools. In this context, ensuring the well-being of professionals is essential...
In previous works, the importance of risk management implementation was addressed with regard to the problem of bankruptcy threat, with the explanation of risk impact on higher bankruptcy costs or the underinvestment problem. However, the evaluation...
Difficulty in financing and low financing efficiency is one of the bottlenecks that restrict the high-quality development of China’s energy-saving and environmental protection industry and economy. The key to improving financing efficiency is t...
Using a set of hand-collected data, we study the economic consequences of FASB Staff Position APB 14-1, which was adopted in 2008 and intended to increase reported interest expense and decrease reported leverage. First, we document that issuers are m...
Cryptocurrencies are widely recognised for catalysing distributed ledger technologies and tokenisation, innovations that are transforming payment systems globally. However, their role as money is often contested and the subject of intense academic an...
Holding companies legally separate the assets and owners of a company creating a layer of liability protection. Theoretically, this feature lowers the risk attributable to holding companies, enabling them to offer lower-cost debts compared to stand-a...
This paper proposes DevOps practices for machine learning application, integrating both the development and operation environment seamlessly. The machine learning processes of development and deployment during the experimentation phase may seem easy....
Ecuador’s credit unions or COACs play a key role inside the local economy, and the pandemic period has shown the weakness of the entities. Understanding the efficiency of the country’s largest COACs and the different factors related to it...
The infrastructure required for international natural gas trade is considerable, which often leads to hold-up problems and supply disruptions. This study discusses disruptions of gas supply from Algeria, Indonesia, Russia, and Turkmenistan since the...
In the context of increasing digitization, integrating ICT technologies, artificial intelligence, and remote working is altering residential mobility patterns and housing preferences. This study examines the housing market’s impact, focusing on...
This study aims to explore the prevalence and correlates of food insecurity among Lebanese households since the ordeals of COVID-19, economic crisis, and Beirut port explosions. At the core of the study, a mobile application entitled Nutrition Assess...
The relatively recent green bond market is increasingly attracting interest at the technical, regulatory, and academic research levels. Although a considerable body of research on green bonds focuses on the investor’s perspective, this study takes th...
Farms in Poland come in a wide variety of sizes, and the effect of farm size on the profitability of labor has not been sufficiently investigated. This paper takes a fresh look at the model for labor profitability determinants of family farms in Pola...
This paper uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks to predict the stock prices of the Yuanta Taiwan Top 50 ETF (ETF50). To improve the accuracy of the model’s predictions, a calibration procedure called “Short-Term Bias Compensation&r...
Nowadays, agile software development is considered a mainstream approach for software with fast release cycles and frequent changes in requirements. Most of the time, high velocity in software development implies poor software quality, especially whe...
The paper explores the concept of energy poverty (EP) by examining its definition, dimensions, determinants, and impacts on households. The study underscores the necessity of comprehending the multifaceted subjective and objective nature of energy po...
In 2016, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance estimated the market for sustainable investments to have reached 22.89 trillion USD of assets under management. While financial institutions have embraced the idea of sustainable finance as a busine...
Model-Based Software Engineering (MBSE) is an architecture-based software development approach. Agile, on the other hand, is a light system development approach that originated in software development. To bring together the benefits of both approache...
As an essential component of China’s comprehensive transportation network, freeways play an irreplaceable role in promoting regional economic integration, improving logistics efficiency, and serving public travel. However, the development of fr...
[Context] The software startups could continuously innovate business model value proposition by involving freelancers as a source of innovative ideas (that enhance customer perceived value) and as experts for implementing the innovative ideas (by und...
Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), is rapidly reshaping higher education by transforming teaching, learning, assessment, research, and institutional management. This entry provides a sta...