A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a system that enables people to control an external device with their brain activity, without the need of any muscular activity. Researchers in the BCI field aim to develop applications to improve the quality of life of severely disabled patients, for whom a BCI can be a useful channel for interaction with their environment. Some of these systems are intended...

Except for a couple of rigorous software certification schemes that are required for certain safety-critical software applications (e.g., RTCA DO178-B), there are no generally trusted software certification schemes. While there is no theoretical reason why these safety-critical standards could not be applied to all applications, there is a practical reason: cost. Estimates vary, but it is gener...

For the improvement of software quality and productivity, organizations need to systematically build up and reuse software engineering know-how, promoting organizational learning in software development. Therefore, an integrated support platform has to be developed for capturing, storing and retrieving software engineering knowledge. Technical support is complicated through specific characteris...

Abstract: Information quality assessment of technical documentation is an integral part of quality management of products and services. Technical documentation is usually assessed using questionnaires, checklists, and reviews. This is cumbersome, costly and prone to errors. Acknowledging the fact that only people can assess certain quality aspects, we suggest complementing these with software-s...

In view of potential application to biomedical diagnosis, tight transcriptome data quality control is compulsory. Usually, quality control is achieved using labeling and hybridization controls added at different stages throughout the processing of the biologic RNA samples. These control measures, however, only reflect the performance of the individual technical manipulations during the entire p...

Thirty-three practitioners, researchers, students, and tool vendors gathered in Dagstuhl, Germany, for five days in April 2016 to discuss the state of managing technical debt in software engineering. Participants reflected on the significant advances that the Managing Technical Debt (MTD) community has made since its inception in 2010; reached a consensus on a definition, called the Dagstuhl 16...