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Below is the Conclusion Section of an article (The efect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violence) dealing with the effects of violent video games on people."The...
View ArticleSoftware Transparency
Our group at PUC-Rio just finished the first version of a Software Transparency site. Although the site is still in Portuguese, there are links to English material.There will be, soon, an English version.
View ArticleTransparency on the LA Times
Just read a note in the LA Times regarding the lack of transparency on the negotiation for thebailout bill.Interesting to notice a link to President Obama white paper on transparency, but the given...
View ArticleCars are Hungry for Code
Recently, I have quoted Prof. Broy with respect to the amount of processors embeded in cars. Anyway, I just found out that IEEE Spectrum run an news article on the subject. Prof Broy and other experts...
View ArticleTraceability
Well we all know how important requirements traceability is for software engineering.I just found a curious example of traceability that has a lot to do with business processes and how the financial...
View ArticleInformation Transparency
In discussing software transparency, we have differentiated the concept of information transparency from process transparency.A recent article in Wired does tackle the issue of information...
View ArticleInformation is Power
Incredible!Just read this, in the awakening of the AIG debts. The U.S. government invested over US$ 150 billion on the company as a way of protecting the whole financial system. Press and citizens are...
View ArticleOpen Government
President Obama issued a memorandum directing the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services to...
View ArticleUnited States CTO
I just learned from the La Times that the new CTO was finallyappointed. As the CIO, he also comes from Virginia. His nameis Aneesh Chopra (see also a note about him 4 years ago).This is what President...
View ArticleTag Oriented Search
Way back I wrote “Delicious may be a great undertaking by people in building a shared ontology. Let’s see.”I just have read an article on Computer Magazine that explores this possibility. The article...
View ArticleSystems Analysis versus Requirements Engineering
I have been teaching and preaching that thephrase "systems analysis" is not a proper term for the task ofbuilding requirements. In reality it causes a lot ofmisunderstandings for young professionals.In...
View ArticleRequirements Engineering´s Roots
I am honored to be among the first researchers to be involved in the Requirements Engineering area. We were involved in the first RE conference as well as on the starting of IFIP W.G. 2.9.I have...
View ArticleSoftware Transparency
Check the Software Transparency portal at PUC-Rio. Click here, or follow the link on the Links sidebar.
View ArticleClimate Change
Just found out the blog maintained by Steve Easterbrook on matters related to climate change. Professor Easterbrook has been studying how requirements engineering may help dealing with the huge problem...
View ArticleSoftware Transparency: the Case of AgorithmicTrading
On May, 6th, 2010 the Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down about 400 points just before 2:45 p.m., plunged nearly 1,000 points in a matter of minutes.As of now, no explanation has been...
View ArticleCobol as an Obstacle for the Terminator
Amazing at least!I do recall that after I watched “The Terminator” in 1984 I did comment with friends that it was funny that the code that was shown on the movie, as the code for the robot, was written...
View ArticleSoftware Engineering for Helping Hospitals
In 2007, at the Monterey Workshop on Requirements Engineering I heard a talk by Lori Clarke, where she presented the number of “preventable errors in hospitals” as indexed by Jumbo Jet crashes. In 2008...
View ArticleThoughts on the new shape of social networks -- Delicious X Twitter
When I started this blog, back in 2006, I was very much certain that tagging was a powerful concept towards building a shared ontology: “I am curious to see how delicious will evolve, and how the data...
View ArticleParnas on Requirements Engineering
A must read article from David Parnas on the CACM of Jun/11 tackles the problem of lack of discipline in performing proper Software Engineering.I am quoting below some of the important remarks, but go...
View ArticleToyota Software
Here is what the LAT says: “Investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NASA and the National Academy of Sciences found no flaws in the automaker's electronics that could...
View ArticleThe Case of Healthcare.gov
Last Sunday, returning from the great 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research held at HEC, Paris, I heard for the first time about the Healthcare.gov case.I was reading the French newspaper...
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Why do I like the means-end relationship in istar (i*)?
In the picture below there is a light comparision among different modeling languages for representing the idea that a customer has to be registered by a software system.
View ArticleRequirements Elicitation
In the requirements literature there is a lot of confusion about termininology, which is perfectly fine, since this is a young discipline. In addition, requirements engineering has been approached...
View ArticleThoughts on Software Engineering Ph.D. Research
I would say that there are 3 main characteristics for a successful Ph.D. in Software Engineering:It should be guided by EthicsIt should be anchored on shoulders of giants, but digging deeperBe...
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