IEEE Software

Norman Fenton and Martin Neil explain the world of Bayesian decision networks and the development of the company Agena, which developed its own Bayesian network platform. View full abstract»

Outsourcing to the crowd, or crowdsourcing, has launched extremely successful businesses, such as Linux. But platforms for efficient collaboration and crowdsourcing support are still emerging. This article provides an overview of current technologies for crowdsourcing. View full abstract»

Many affordable cloud-based offerings that cover software development needs, like version control, issue tracking, remote application monitoring, localization, deployment, payment processing, and continuous integration, do away with the setup, maintenance, and user support costs and complexity associated with running such systems in-house. The most important risks of cloud-based tools concern cont... View full abstract»

Researchers from sociological disciplines could greatly benefit from collective information from the many people who use mobile devices to communicate via various social apps and services. However, processing that information is difficult because it's scattered among numerous social platforms. Furthermore, users are becoming increasingly concerned about how and by whom their information is being a... View full abstract»

The challenges issued by next-generation mobile communication scenarios clearly emphasize the inadequacy of traditional communication solutions in supporting efficient mobile and pervasive applications. Research so far has focused on higher-layer middleware or on the optimization of TCP-based solutions for wireless environments, but there's an obvious need to focus on communication middleware that... View full abstract»

Architecting software for a cloud computing platform built from mobile embedded devices incurs many challenges that aren't present in traditional cloud computing. Both effectively managing constrained resources and isolating applications without adverse performance effects are needed. A practical design- and runtime solution incorporates modern software development practices and technologies along... View full abstract»

Newer models for interacting with wireless sensors such as Internet of Things and Sensor Cloud aim to overcome restricted resources and efficiency. The Missouri S&T (science and technology) sensor cloud enables different networks, spread in a huge geographical area, to connect together and be employed simultaneously by multiple users on demand. Virtual sensors, which are at the core of this se... View full abstract»

In less than five years, the number of mobile apps has grown exponentially, with more than 1 million available in the largest mobile app stores. One explanation for this growth could be the adoption of well-proven software engineering practices--in particular, software reuse despite the often conjectured lack of training among mobile app developers. A study of hundreds of thousands of Android apps... View full abstract»

As cloud computing evolves, system architectures will evolve with it. Every new technology becomes a tool for architects to manipulate. BestBuy.com designed their new e-commerce platform to integrate cloud computing as part of the system; the architecture exploits the inherent qualities of a cloud rather than simply operating on a cloud. This type of architecture, which builds an entire applicatio... View full abstract»

Developers of embedded systems are driven to constantly improve product quality, reduce cost, and rapidly deliver reliable working code. The embedded software domain applies constraints which can hinder agile methodologies commonly used to achieve such benefits. Simulation-based software development is one proven method that addresses these constraints. When tailored to work in conjunction with ag... View full abstract»