Improved separation of concern is important for dealing with increasing complexity of today’s software systems. A number of language designs have been proposed in the last decade with the common goal to improve the separation of concerns by providing better modularization mechanisms e.g. mix-ins, units, roles, layers, hyperspaces, events, aspects, etc. To understand the benefits of a new modula...

Climate-Based Daylight Modelling (CBDM) is a methodology that allows the prediction of several measures of daylight using the sky condition from location specific meteorological data. CBDM was originally used as a means for predicting indoor daylight availability and intensity. Since the scalability of the method has been proved it has been applied at different architectural scales for differen...

[Context and motivation] User participation in software development is considered to be essential for successful software systems. Especially missing direct communication between users and developers can cause various issues in large-scale IT projects.[Question/Problem] We want to understand current practices of user–developer communication in large-scale IT projects, the factors for, and conse...