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- Abrahao, Silvia, et al.
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Open Source Software: Communities and Quality
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 40:4, s. 96-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edition of the Practitioner's Digest features recent papers on open source software related to toxicity in open source discussions, newcomers in open source projects, quality of ansible scripts, code review practices, orphan vulnerabilities in open source software, and the relationship between community and design smells.
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- Asgari, Shadnaz, et al.
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Computing to Change the World for the Better: A Research-Focused Workshop for Women
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proc of Research on Equity & Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women's underrepresentation in Computer Science (CS) can be attributed to various factors including lack of self-efficacy, role models, encouragement, awareness of the discipline and existing research pathways. In February 2019, we hosted a Google-sponsored research-focused workshop at California State University, Long Beach to raise female undergraduates' awareness and confidence in CS research pathways and careers. Forty-six students from several universities in Southern California participated in the workshop. Over the course of three days, students worked on research problems with clear real-world applications in teams led by faculty and assisted by graduate students. Additional sessions were held to inspire female undergraduates, increase their confidence and enrich their knowledge about research and graduate programs. In this paper, we report about our experience and the lessons we learned. We also present evidence of success in strengthening the research interests of our participants based on the results of the pre- and post-surveys that were designed and administered by the evaluators of our funding agency (Google Inc.) to better understand the impact of these workshops.
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- Basmer, Maike, et al.
(författare)
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SusAF Welcomes SusApp: Tool Support for the Sustainability Awareness Framework
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - 2332-6441 .- 1090-705X. ; , s. 418-419
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As sustainability increasingly gains attention, it has also found its way into the area of software engineering, with a specific emphasis on requirements engineering. The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) proposed by Duboc et al. supports stakeholders in taking the long view at their software systems in terms of sustainability. In this paper, we propose SusApp, a web-based tool to simplify the application of the SusAF. In particular, it facilitates the documentation and visualization of effects on sustainability. To learn about the users' perception of SusApp, we conducted two small-scale user studies that investigated the tool's usability and usefulness. Overall, the studies showed that the tool was generally perceived positively by the participants. However, shortcomings in the usability became apparent, which have also impacted the perceived usefulness.
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- Betz, Stefanie, et al.
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Lessons Learned from Developing a Sustainability Awareness Framework for Software Engineering Using Design Science
- 2024
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Ingår i: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. - 1049-331X .- 1557-7392. ; 33:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To foster a sustainable society within a sustainable environment, we must dramatically reshape our work and consumption activities, most of which are facilitated through software. Yet, most software engineers hardly consider the effects on the sustainability of the IT products and services they deliver. This issue is exacerbated by a lack of methods and tools for this purpose. Despite the practical need for methods and tools that explicitly support consideration of the effects that IT products and services have on the sustainability of their intended environments, such methods and tools remain largely unavailable. Thus, urgent research is needed to understand how to design such tools for the IT community properly. In this article, we describe our experience using design science to create the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF), which supports software engineers in anticipating and mitigating the potential sustainability effects during system development. More specifically, we identify and present the challenges faced during this process. The challenges that we have faced and addressed in the development of the SusAF are likely to be relevant to others who aim to create methods and tools to integrate sustainability analysis into their IT products and services development. Thus, the lessons learned in SusAF development are shared for the benefit of researchers and other professionals who design tools for that end.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
(författare)
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Behavioral science and diversity in software engineering
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:2, s. 107-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Practioners' Digest department in this issue of IEEE Software covers two topics: the behavioral science of software engineering and diversity in software engineering (this issue's theme) and includes papers from the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE20), 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME19), 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE20), Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2020 (ESEM20), and Association for Computing Machinery Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE20). Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in this article, please send me and the authors of the paper(s) a note about your experiences.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
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Conference Highlights: JIT Fault Prevention, Motivated Modeling, Security in Requirements, and Improving Team Performance
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 37:4, s. 83-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This issue's practitioners' Digest reports on papers from the 2018 International Conference on Mining Sof tware Repositories, the 2019 International Conference on Requirements Engineering, and the 2019 European Conference on Software Process Improvement. Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in this article, please send me and the author(s) of the paper(s) a note about your experiences.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
(författare)
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Extracting Requirements and Modeling Information and Controlling Risk
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:3, s. 121-124
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Presents papers from the 2020 IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering and the ACM/ IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2020).
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
(författare)
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(Research) Insights for Serverless Application Engineering
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:1, s. 123-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The special issue of IEEE Software, the ‘Practitioners Digest’ reports on papers about serverless application engineering from Journal of Systems and Software, the 2020 European Conference on Software Architecture, and the 19th International Conference on Middleware. ‘Function-as-a-Service Performance Evaluation: A Multivocal Literature Review’ by Joel Scheuner and Philipp Leitner describes 112 studies that report the empirical evaluation of the performance of function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms. FaaS is a form of serverless cloud computing and is de fined as FaaS platform Web Services (AWS) executing event-triggered code snippets. This paper consolidates the results from 61 industrial and 51 academic performance studies and provides actionable recommendations on reproducible FaaS experimentation.
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- Chitchyan, Ruzanna, et al.
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Preface Re4SuSy: 8th international workshop on requirements engineering for sustainable systems
- 2019
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - 1613-0073. ; 2541
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The RE4SuSy workshop series has established a strong and growing research community around the different aspects of sustainability and how to support them in requirements engineering. Since requirements define how and what a software will do, we maintain that requirements engineering is the key point in software engineering through which sustainability can be fostered. Thus, the RE4SuSy workshop series is concerned with research on techniques, tools, and processes for sustainability through requirements engineering. Last year the workshop spanned a series of application domains and the discussion centered on the challenge of growing the research community and the potential steps required to achieve growth. Two main factors identified were the potential connection to empirical investigations on scientific software and the more systematic integration into computer science and software engineering education. This edition of the RE4SuSy workshop will build on the discussions from last year, and explore further application domains as well as the local perceptions of sustainability in the hosting country. Furthermore, we will pick up the conference theme and explore tackling sustainability challenges through collective intelligence. RE4SuSy is an interactive workshop: the contributors and prospective participants engage well before the workshop date through on-line collaborative writing, discussion, and peer feedback. We foster community growth by supporting new collaborations, holding preliminary case studies, discussions, and birds-of-a-feather group work.
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- Duboc, Leticia, et al.
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Do we really know what we are building? Raising awareness of potential sustainability effects of software systems in requirements engineering
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 2332-6441 .- 1090-705X. ; 2019-September, s. 6-16
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Integrating novel software systems in our society, economy, and environment can have far-reaching effects. As a result, software systems should be designed in such a way as to maintain or improve the sustainability of the socio-technical system of their destination. However, a paradigm shift is required to raise awareness of software professionals on the potential sustainability effects of software systems. While Requirements Engineering is considered the key to driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for doing so. This paper presents a question-based framework for raising awareness of the potential effects of software systems on sustainability, as the first step towards enabling the required paradigm shift. A feasibility study of the framework was carried out with two groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework helps enable discussions about potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
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| 13. |
- Duboc, Leticia, et al.
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Requirements engineering for sustainability: an awareness framework for designing software systems for a better tomorrow
- 2020
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Ingår i: Requirements Engineering. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0947-3602 .- 1432-010X. ; 25:4, s. 469-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Integrating novel software systems in our society, economy and environment can have far-reaching effects. As a result, software systems should be designed in such a way as to maintain or improve the sustainability of their intended socio-technical systems. However, a paradigm shift is required to raise awareness of software professionals on the potential sustainability effects of software systems. While Requirements Engineering is considered the key for driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for acting as facilitators for a broader discussion on sustainability effects. This paper presents a question-based framework for raising awareness of the potential effects of software systems on sustainability, as the first step towards enabling the required paradigm shift. An evaluation study of the framework was conducted with four groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework is applicable to different types of systems and helps to facilitate discussions about the potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
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- Eriksson, Elina, 1979-, et al.
(författare)
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Preface of the 5th International Workshop on ICT4S Education
- 2023
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Ingår i: ICT4S-JP 2023 - Joint Proceedings of ICT4S 2023 Doctoral Symposium, Demonstrations and Posters Track and Workshops, co-located with 9th International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability, ICT4S 2023. - : CEUR-WS. ; 3562, s. 103-104
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ICT4S as an umbrella concept encompasses several disciplines and areas related to sustainability and ICT, and it can be difficult for an educator to have an overview of all areas and research fronts where interesting, engaging and transformative research is taking place. We provide such a space.
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- Ferrari, Alessio, et al.
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Preface
- 2023
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). - 1611-3349 .- 0302-9743. ; 13975 LNCS, s. v-vii
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- Gustavsson, Johanna, et al.
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Blinded by Simplicity: Locating the Social Dimension in Software Development Process Literature
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. ; , s. 116-127
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The software development process is a complex human, intellectual and labor-intensive activity and human related factors have shown to be the most significant contributors to software system failures. Lacking the ability to identify or quantify these factors, software practitioners will not learn from the failures caused by them. Although, social factors give rise to high failure rates in software development projects they tend to be ignored. Business continues as usual. The inability for software engineers to attain a holistic and inclusive approach will leave the social dimension out and undermine the realization of a fully sustainable software development process. This paper builds on the master’s thesis with the same title completed in December 2019 at Stockholm University. The thesis demonstrates how research literature on software development processes addresses (or not) the social dimension of sustainability from a holistic point of view. The results indicate that the practice of dealing holistically with complexity including the social dimension is still underdeveloped. Further research is suggested regarding the development of adequate supporting tools, social skills, and managerial attitudes and behaviors.
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- Hehn, Jennifer, et al.
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Preface Education and Training Tack @REFSQ
- 2024
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - 1613-0073. ; 3672
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Education and Training track provided a collaborative space for industry practitioners, researchers, and educators to share RE best practices. With a focus on fostering exchange, the track featured three full papers, an extended abstract, and a workshop. The interactive format included regular presentations, a teaching workshop, and a world café session discussing AI's impact on RE education, sustainability, and domain-specific versus general RE education. The outcomes aimed to enhance RE competence through shared insights and continuous improvement in education approaches.
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- Heldal, Rogardt, 1964, et al.
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Sustainability competencies and skills in software engineering: An industry perspective
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Systems and Software. - 0164-1212. ; 211
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context: Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands a shift by industry, governments, society, and individuals to reach adequate levels of awareness and actions to address sustainability challenges. Software systems will play an important role in moving towards these targets. Sustainability skills are necessary to support the development of software systems and to provide sustainable IT-supported services for citizens. Gap: While there is a growing number of academic bodies including sustainability education in engineering and computer science curricula, there is not yet comprehensive research on the competencies and skills required by IT professionals to develop such systems. Research goal: This study aims to identify the industrial sustainability needs for education and training from software engineers’ perspective. For this, we answer the following questions: (1) what are the interests of organisations with an IT division with respect to sustainability? (2) what do organisations want to achieve with respect to sustainability, and how? and (3) what are the sustainability-related competencies and skills that organisations need to achieve their sustainability goals? Methodology: We conducted a qualitative study with interviews and focus groups with experts from twenty-eight organisations with an IT division from nine countries to understand their interests, goals, and achievements related to sustainability, and the skills and competencies needed to achieve their goals. Results: Our findings show that organisations are interested in sustainability, both idealistically and increasingly for core business reasons. They seek to improve the sustainability of software processes and products but encounter difficulties, like the trade-off between short-term financial profitability and long-term sustainability goals or an unclear understanding of sustainability concepts from a software engineering perspective. To fill these gaps, they have promoted in-house training courses, collaborated with universities, and sent employees to external training. The acquired competencies should support translating environmental and social benefits into economic ones and make sustainability an integral part of software development.
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- Kienzle, J., et al.
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Toward model-driven sustainability evaluation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Communications of the ACM. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 0001-0782 .- 1557-7317. ; 63:3, s. 80-91
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.
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| 21. |
- Lieu, Susan, et al.
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The 'Vattn' Case: Analysing Sustainability Impacts in a Software Startup
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S 2022. ; , s. 150-159
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interest in sustainability research has increased in Software Engineering, however most research conducted over-look startups integrating sustainability into the development of their software systems. The goal of this paper is to contribute to filling this knowledge gap by showcasing how startups may adopt sustainability into their software system. This will be achieved using the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF). To demonstrate the use of the SusAF for startups, we conducted a case study with the startup company Vattn, who are developing an online digital water management platform for easier access to clean drinking water. The results show that the SusAF provided the necessary discussion means in order for Vattn to discover the potential sustainability impacts of their software system in the five dimensions of sustainability and across the three orders of effect. Furthermore, the Vattn team were provided with the adequate tool to devise actions to support the identified positive sustainability impacts and mitigate the negative.
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- Mavin, Alistair, et al.
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Towards an Ontology of Requirements Engineering Approaches
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - 2332-6441 .- 1090-705X. - 9781728139128
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Requirements are a key factor in determining the success or failure of the system development process. Requirements engineering is a creative problem-solving process whose primary purpose is to enable researchers and practitioners to apply appropriate theories, models, techniques and tools to understand and support the requirements processes more effectively. However, there is a multitude of ways to conduct the requirements engineering process and the quality of the requirements can be greatly influenced by the approaches employed. While consensus exists that no one approach works in all situations, how do practitioners and researchers select the most relevant and appropriate approach(es)? In order to understand this, we argue that a community-based effort is required to organise the plethora of requirements engineering approaches into an ontology. Such a structure would provide an opportunity to identify gaps and to improve the interfaces between approaches. Crowdsourcing the development and validation of such an ontology would facilitate its application across different system types and application domains.
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| 23. |
- Norton, Juliet, et al.
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Implications of grassroots sustainable agriculture community values on the design of information systems
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 2573-0142. ; 3:CSCW
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Publication rights licensed to Association for Computing Machinery. Information system designers embed values into the systems they design, even if unwittingly. However, the values embedded in many information systems clash with values held by many sustainability communities. This research focuses on two grassroots sustainable agriculture communities, which are seeking to develop a food infrastructure that is under their own control, and thereby more resilient to disruptions across the globe. This paper presents a five-year ethnographic study of these two communities, maps out the values of members of these communities, and explores the implications of their values on the information systems that members use and that could be developed to support them in the future. By doing so, we hope to influence the design of future information systems to align more closely with the values of these stakeholders, and through these stakeholders to move toward a food system that supports food security and global sustainability.
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- Oyedeji, Shola, et al.
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Experiences from Applying the Karlskrona Manifesto Principles for Sustainability in Software System Design
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems. - 1613-0073.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainability in software design is an evolving area that requires more practical guide on how software designers, developers and requirement engineers can elicit software sustain- ability requirements. The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainabil- ity Design (KMSD) principles serve as a common ground to guide and support sustainability in software design. However, there is little research as of now showing how these KMSD principles are applied in software requirements elicitation and software design in general. This paper presents some of our evaluation of how these KMSD principles, the software sustaina- bility requirement template and software sustainability require- ment best practice template were applied in two case studies by stakeholders (requirement engineers, CTO and software develop- ers).
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
(författare)
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AI, Tech, Energy, and Collaboration
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 40:3, s. 80-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edition of the “Practitioner’s Digest” features recent papers on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), along with papers on tech debt, energy consumption, and collaboration between industry and academia.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Bots in Software Engineering
- 2022
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 39:5, s. 101-104
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Editorial for the REFSQ’23 special issue
- 2024
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Ingår i: Requirements Engineering. - 0947-3602 .- 1432-010X. ; 29:1, s. 1-2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
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Leverage Points for Focus Flow and Communitas
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. ; , s. 267-274
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Society is running at a high pace, and with it the hamster wheel we sometimes perceive ourselves to be in. In more scientific terms, this is called cognitive overload in combination with artificial deadline pressure. There is a notion of overwhelm in combination with perceived time scarcity in terms of the cognitive load of individuals. However, if we as individuals are not living in a sustainable way, how can we attempt to create a sustainable world? This paper provides an autoethnography of the use of leverage points to reduce cognitive load for a computer worker, with insights from literature and self-experiments, as well as a discussion on what is needed for changes on a bigger scale. An understanding of how cognitive load and resilience can be addressed by choosing and using specific leverage points has the potential to increase individual sustainability and resilience, what can be called focus flow, as well as communitas (group flow).
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Raising awareness for potential sustainability effects in Uganda: A survey-based empirical study
- 2019
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - 1613-0073. ; 2541
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In July 2019, we ran the 3rd International BRIGHT summer school for Software Engineering and Information Systems at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The participants developed a group project over the course of the week, which included the application of the Sustainability Awareness Framework. The framework promotes discussion on the impact of software systems on sustainability based on a set of questions. In this paper, we present the educational evaluation of the Sustainability Awareness Framework in a country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The results indicate that the framework can provide supportive guidance of the societal and environmental challenges in the given context.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Tapping in - How to Decide: Mind, Heart, or Gut?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. - New York, NY, USA : ACM.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Motivation: Immediate cognition without rationalization is called intuition - an empowering faculty. Many of us feel disconnected from our intuition, potentially causing us to struggle with confidently making decisions. Challenge: We set out to find out why that is and how to support aligned decision-making. Method: We interviewed fourteen experts on tuning into our intuition for decision-making, surveyed currently available decision-making support tools, and modeled a tool that extends current approaches with the expert insights. Results: Based on the experts' insights, we modeled a decision trifecta including mind, heart, and gut along with a narrative of how to educate on their interplay and how to use that to take more aligned decisions. We critically question to what extent decision support technology is a beneficial way forward. Impact: The model opens up a space for discussion around holistic decision making from an individual's perspective. It serves as a reflection tool for personal processes as well as the suitability and limits of supportive technology.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Vision Paper: The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) as a De-Facto Standard?
- 2023
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. - 1613-0073. ; 3378
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- For many practitioners, considering sustainability during a software development project is a challenge. The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) is a tool for thinking through short, medium- and long-term impacts of socio-technical systems on its surrounding environment. While SusAF has been used by several companies, is not widely adopted in industry yet. In this Vision Paper, we discuss the options for extending the reach of SusAF and what it would take to evolve SusAF into a (de-facto) standard.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
(författare)
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Well-Being and Resilience: Developers Thrive!
- 2024
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 41:4, s. 38-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue shows that the state of wellbeing in software engineering is concerning. Clarity on values and clarity on values and integrity help increase resilience. Hence, make time for a weekly reflection practice, and treat it the same as you would an important meeting.
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| 34. |
- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
(författare)
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When Does Design Help Thinking, and When Does Design Thinking Help?
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 37:2, s. 6-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As I'm sitting in the audience of a software development day, where Johan Sanneblad (hiQ developer and business consultant) raves about the possibilities of ultrawideband (IEEE Standard for Information Technology, IEEE Standard 802.15.4a, 2007) and wireless personal area networks and the new chip that Apple put in their new iPhone, I realize that the focus on the technical perspective is really asking us to take a deeper look at the social implications of the technology we are designing. How can we design technology for people, together with people, considering impacts on other people? As often in the requirements corner, the answer includes taking multiple perspectives, a diverse set of stakeholders, ethical considerations, and creativity.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981
(författare)
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Where attention goes, energy flows : enhancing individual sustainability in software engineering
- 2020
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Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450375955
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Software engineers are plagued by the same troubles as many others in highly skilled jobs and digitized environments: Ever-expanding to-do lists, time to market pressure from management, deadline- driven development, continuous interruption during working tasks, and the juggle of balancing that with other areas of life (physical, mental and emotional health, family, household, finance, friends, hobbies and community service). These demands of life in combina- tion with a seemingly ever-increasing pace wear or burn out many people in the long run. Specifically, as software engineers, this also leads to decreased creativity and less efficiency in problem-solving. Generally offered solutions are reducing screen time and spending more time outdoors, both of which are hard to do within the work of a software engineer. On a meta level, if the developers of the systems that run most of our world do not develop individual sus- tainability with a balanced pace of life, that imbalance propagates into the systems we develop (similar to Conway’s Law). We argue that mindfulness practices like yoga poses (asanas), breathing prac- tices, and meditation exercises can help individually, and even more effectively in combination. In this exploratory paper, we discuss related work that explores the application of these mitigations in other application domains and propose a research agenda to explore their use within software engineering education and practice. Engaging with mindfulness practices in the context of software engineering promises to enhance creativity and cognitive problem- solving skills, leading to more efficiency and effectiveness during software development and increased individual sustainability. This, in turn, leads to better team spirit as well as increased economic profit, both in terms of maintaining human capital and customer contract deliverables.
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- Peters, Anne-Kathrin, Dr. 1984-, et al.
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Sustainability in Computing Education : A Systematic Literature Review
- 2024
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Ingår i: ACM Transactions on Computing Education. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 1946-6226. ; 24:1
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research shows that the global society as organized today, with our current technological and economic system, is impossible to sustain. We are living in an era in which human activities in highly industrialized countries are responsible for overshooting several planetary boundaries, with poorer communities contributing the least to the problems but being impacted the most. At the same time, technical and economic gains fail to provide society at large with equal opportunities and improved quality of life. This article describes approaches taken in computing education to address the issue of sustainability. It presents results of a systematic review of the literature on sustainability in computing education. From a set of 572 publications extracted from six large digital libraries plus snowballing, we distilled and analyzed 89 relevant primary studies. Using an inductive and deductive thematic analysis, we study (i) conceptions of sustainability, computing, and education; (ii) implementations of sustainability in computing education; and (iii) research on sustainability in computing education. We present a framework capturing learning objectives and outcomes as well as pedagogical methods for sustainability in computing education. These results can be mapped to existing standards and curricula in future work. We find that only a few of the articles engage with the challenges as calling for drastic systemic change, along with radically new understandings of computing and education. We suggest that future work should connect to the substantial body of critical theory, such as feminist theories of science and technology. Existing research on sustainability in computing education may be considered rather immature, as the majority of articles are experience reports with limited empirical research.
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- Porras, Jari, et al.
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How Could We Have Known? Anticipating Sustainability Effects of a Software Product
- 2021
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 1865-1356 .- 1865-1348. ; 434 LNBIP, s. 10-17
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Companies are required to think of ways to address their sustainability responsibilities and impacts. Although they commonly present some of their activities and impacts at a high-level of abstraction in their sustainability strategies, the impacts of their products and services may remain unclear in such reporting. This is partly due to the lack of suitable tools to increase their awareness regarding the potential effects of these products and services on different sustainability dimensions. Using a case study, this paper shows how the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) can be applied to identify such potential effects of an IT company’s (software) product and how such identified effects could be linked to the company focus.
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- Rubegni, Elisa, et al.
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Owning Your Career Paths: Storytelling to Engage Women in Computer Science
- 2023
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Ingår i: Intelligent Systems Reference Library. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 1868-4408 .- 1868-4394. ; , s. 1-25, s. 1-25
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Motivation & challenge: Computer Science suffers from a lack of diversity that gets perpetuated by the most dominant and visible role models. The community is doing itself a disservice by upholding techno-solutionism, short-term efficiency, and busyness as central values. Those models are created and consolidated over time through social and cultural interactions that increase the perpetration of gender stereotypes. Exposing people to diverse types of role models and stories can contribute to making them more aware of the complexity of reality and inspire them taking better informed decisionsmaking on their career paths. Likewise, showing different role models to stakeholders in society and industry can contribute to increase the workforce diversity in the profession of computing as well as to make a shift towards the consolidation of different role models. This, in turn, may contribute to strengthen resilience and adequacy for solving issues related to diversity, equality and inclusion in Computer Science and more importantly allowing women take the ownership of their career path. Goal: To encourage the dissemination, sharing and creation of stories that show diverse career pathways to address gender stereotypes created by dominant stories in Computer Science. We tackle this issue by developing a framework for storytelling around female scientists and professionals to show a diversity of possibilities for women in pursuing an academic career based on the ownership of their pathways. Method: We apply a qualitative approach to analyse stories collected using the auto-ethnography and use thematic analysis to unpack the components of what in these stories contribute to building the academic path in the field of Computer Science. Authors used their own professional histories and experiences as input. They highlighted the central values of their research visions and approaches to life and emphasised how they have helped to take decisions that shaped their professional paths. Results: We present a framework made of the nine macro-themes emerging from the autoethnography analysis and two dimensions that we pick from the literature (interactions and practices). The framework aims to be a reflecting storytelling tool that could support women in Computer Sciences to create their own paths. Specifically, the framework addresses issues related to communication, dissemination to the public, community engagement, education, and outreach to increase the diversity within Computer Science, AI and STEM in general. Impact: The framework can help building narratives to showcase the variety of values supported by Computer Science. These stories have the power of showing the diversity of people as well as highlighting the uniqueness of their research visions in contributing to transformation of our global society into a supportive, inclusive and equitable community. Our work aims to support practitioners who design outreach activities for increasing diversity and inclusion, and will help other stakeholders to reflect on their own reality, values and priorities. Additionally, the outcomes are useful for those who are working in improving the gender gap in Computer Science in academia and industry. Finally, they are meant for women who are willing to proceed into an academic career in this area by offering a spur for reflection and concrete actions that could support them in their path from PhD to professorship.
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- Serebrenik, Alexander, et al.
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AI Engineering Research in Software Engineering Venues
- 2022
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 39:6, s. 105-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In honor of this issue’s theme of “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering—Realizing the Potential of AI,” this edition of the “Practitioners’ Digest” brings you recent papers on AI and machine learning (ML) engineering, which we believe will be of interest to practitioners. These papers were published in the First International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN 2022), the 26th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022 (EASE 2022), and the 2022 IEEE/Association for Computing Machinery First International Workshop on Software Engineering for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (SE4RAI).
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- Staron, Miroslaw, 1977, et al.
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Human Aspects and Security in Software Development
- 2024
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 41:4, s. 171-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edition of the 'Practitioners' Digest' brings you recent articles on approaches to addressing selected human and technical aspects of software development, from finding security vulnerabilities, system-level testing, to understanding the impact of personality on requirements engineering activities, published at selected software engineering conferences.
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- Venters, Colin C., et al.
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Software Sustainability: Beyond the Tower of Babel
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, BoKSS 2021. ; , s. 3-4
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- Venters, Colin C., et al.
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Sustainable software engineering: Reflections on advances in research and practice
- 2023
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Ingår i: Information and Software Technology. - 0950-5849. ; 164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Context: Modern societies are highly dependent on complex, large-scale, software-intensive systems that increasingly operate within an environment of continuous availability, which are challenging to maintain, and evolve in response to changes in stakeholder requirements of the system. Software architectures are the foundation of any software system and provide a mechanism for reasoning about core software quality requirements. Their sustainability – the capacity to endure in changing environments – is a critical concern for software architecture research and practice. Objective: The objective of the paper is to re-examine our previous assumptions and arguments in light of advances in the field. This reflection paper provides an opportunity to obtain new insights into the trends in software sustainability in both academia and industry, from a software architecture perspective specifically and software engineering more broadly. Given advances in research in the field, the increasing introduction of academic courses on different sustainability topics, and the engagement of companies to cope with sustainability goals, we reflect on advances and maturity about the role sustainability in general plays in today's society. More specifically, we revisit the trends, open issues and research challenges identified five years ago in our previous paper on software sustainability research and practice from a software architecture viewpoint, which aimed to provide a foundation and roadmap of emerging research themes in the area of sustainable software architectures in order to consider how this paper influenced and motivated research in the intervening years. Method: The forward snowballing method was used to establish the methodological basis for our reflection on the state of the art. A total of 234 studies were identified between April 2018 and June 2023 and 102 studies were found to be relevant according to the selection criteria. A further subset was mapped to the primary themes of the original paper including definitions and concepts, reference architectures, measures and metrics, and education. Vision: The vision of this reflection paper is to provide a new foundation and road map of emerging research themes in the area of sustainable software engineering highlighting recent trends, and open issues and research challenges.
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- Wagner, Stefan, et al.
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Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Informatics. - 1617-5468. ; P-310, s. 115-116
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While researchers have been investigating the Requirements Engineering (RE) discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, attempts to systematically derive an empirical theory in context of the RE discipline have just recently been started. We aim at providing an empirical and externally valid foundation for a theory of RE practice, which helps software engineers establish effective and efficient RE processes in a problem-driven manner. We designed a survey instrument and an engineer-focused theory that has been conducted in 10 countries. We have a theory in the form of a set of propositions inferred from our experiences and available studies, as well as the results from our pilot study in Germany. We evaluate the propositions with bootstrapped confidence intervals and derive potential explanations for the propositions.
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- Widdicks, Kelly, et al.
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Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy
- 2023
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Ingår i: Patterns. - : Elsevier BV. - 2666-3899. ; 4:2
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovations and efficiencies in digital technology have lately been depicted as paramount in the green transition to enable the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, both in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the wider economy. This, however, fails to adequately account for rebound effects that can offset emission savings and, in the worst case, increase emissions. In this perspective, we draw on a transdisciplinary workshop with 19 experts from carbon accounting, digital sustainability research, ethics, sociology, public policy, and sustainable business to expose the challenges of addressing rebound effects in digital innovation processes and associated policy. We utilize a responsible innovation approach to uncover potential ways forward for incorporating rebound effects in these domains, concluding that addressing ICT-related rebound effects ultimately requires a shift from an ICT efficiency-centered perspective to a “systems thinking” model, which aims to understand efficiency as one solution among others that requires constraints on emissions for ICT environmental savings to be realized.
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