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most citedExploring Context-Aware Conversational Agents in Software Development

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cs.SE2021★ 11 cited

Machine Learning Model Development from a Software Engineering Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review

Giuliano Lorenzoni, Paulo Alencar, Nathalia Nascimento +1

Data scientists often develop machine learning models to solve a variety of problems in the industry and academy but not without facing several challenges in terms of Model Develop…

cs.SE2021

A Cognitive and Machine Learning-Based Software Development Paradigm Supported by Context

Glaucia Melo, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

Advances in the use of cognitive and machine learning (ML) enabled systems fuel the quest for novel approaches and tools to support software developers in executing their tasks. Fi…

cs.SE2020★ 12 cited

Exploring Context-Aware Conversational Agents in Software Development

Glaucia Melo, Edith Law, Paulo Alencar +1

Software development is a complex endeavor that depends on a wide variety of contextual factors involving a large amount of distributed information. This knowledge could include: t…

cs.SE2019

Context-Augmented Software Development Projects: Literature Review and Preliminary Framework

Glaucia Melo, Paulo Alencar, Don Cowan

Software development is a complex activity which depends on diverse technologies and people's expertise. The approaches to developing software highly depend on these different char…

cs.SE2018

The Next Generation of Metadata-Oriented Testing of Research Software

Doug Mulholland, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

Research software refers to software development tools that accelerate discovery and simplifies access to digital infrastructures. However, although research software platforms can…

cs.SE2018

A Variability-Aware Design Approach to the Data Analysis Modeling Process

Maria Cristina Vale Tavares, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

The massive amount of current data has led to many different forms of data analysis processes that aim to explore this data to uncover valuable insights. Methodologies to guide the…

cs.SE2018

The iEnvironment Platform: Developing an Open Science Software Platform for Integrated Environmental Monitoring and Modeling of Surface Water

Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan, Doug Mulholland

This paper describes the development of iEnvironment, an open science software platform that supports monitoring and modeling of aspects of surface water. The platform supports sci…

cs.SE2018★ 5 cited

Software Engineers vs. Machine Learning Algorithms: An Empirical Study Assessing Performance and Reuse Tasks

Nathalia Nascimento, Carlos Lucena, Paulo Alencar +1

Several papers have recently contained reports on applying machine learning (ML) to the automation of software engineering (SE) tasks, such as project management, modeling and deve…

cs.SE2016★ 5 cited

A Survey on Domain-Specific Languages for Machine Learning in Big Data

Ivens Portugal, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

The amount of data generated in the modern society is increasing rapidly. New problems and novel approaches of data capture, storage, analysis and visualization are responsible for…

cs.SE2015

The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Recommender Systems: A Systematic Review

Ivens Portugal, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

Recommender systems use algorithms to provide users with product or service recommendations. Recently, these systems have been using machine learning algorithms from the field of a…

cs.SE2015★ 3 cited

Requirements Engineering for General Recommender Systems

Ivens Portugal, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

In requirements engineering for recommender systems, software engineers must identify the data that drives the recommendations. This is a labor-intensive task, which is error-prone…