One of the next research goals in Semantic Web-enabled software engineering is to naturally use Semantic Web data within arbitrary applications. This will in most cases require some kind of mapping between object-oriented and graph-based information representations. In this paper, we investigate...

Modern software development is highly knowledge intensive; it requires that software developers create and share new knowledge during their daily work. However, current software development environments are “syntactic”, i.e. they do not facilitate understanding the semantics of software...

30.000 advisory calls per year! How to analyze, rate and improve them interactively? For getting these goals a novel technique is introduced, which is based on a structure similar to a music score. Via a “duet”, guided by the advisor called, the main contents of the dialogue are extracted...

This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS'09), which was held from January 28-30, 2009 at the University of Sevilla, Spain.

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...

Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive...

Patterns for software development have been a hot topic for some time within the object-oriented community. Patterns are part of a software engineering problem-solving discipline. It all started with Design Patterns [11], but gradually patterns were used in a larger number of areas of system...

In this paper, we show that the planning and decision-support capabilities of the MPC (Manufacturing Planning and Control) system, which forms the core of any ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) package, may be substantively enhanced by including a Decision Support Module (DSM) as an add-on at...