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2nd international workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering (REBSE-2) (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Brereton, P., Kitchenham, B., & Turner, M. (2007, February). 2nd international workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering (REBSE-2). Presented at 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07 Companion), Minneapolis, USA

The REBSE international workshops are concerned with exploring the adaptation and use of the evidence-based paradigm in software engineering research and practice. The workshops address this goal through a mix of presentations and discussion, drawing... Read More about 2nd international workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering (REBSE-2).

Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain (2007)
Journal Article
Brereton, P., Kitchenham, B. A., Budgen, D., Turner, M., & Khalil, M. (2007). Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain. Journal of Systems and Software, 80(4), 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.07.009

A consequence of the growing number of empirical studies in software engineering is the need to adopt systematic approaches to assessing and aggregating research outcomes in order to provide a balance and objective summary of research evidence for a... Read More about Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain.

A data integration broker for healthcare systems (2007)
Journal Article
Budgen, D., Rigby, M., Brereton, P., & Turner, M. (2007). A data integration broker for healthcare systems. Computer, 40(4), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2007.112

A prototype information broker uses a software service model to collect and integrate diverse patient data from autonomous healthcare agencies, potentially solving many problems that challenge current enterprise-based file systems.

Investigating service-oriented system performance: A systematic study (2007)
Journal Article
Woodall, P., Brereton, P., & Budgen, D. (2007). Investigating service-oriented system performance: A systematic study. Software: Practice and Experience, 37(2), 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.752

The initial use of a service-oriented system, which collates information from three databases, highlighted a performance problem with query response time for queries that selected more than ten attributes from a single data source. Our aim was to fin... Read More about Investigating service-oriented system performance: A systematic study.

A data-gathering broker as a future-orientated approach to supporting EPR users (2007)
Journal Article
Rigby, M., Budgen, D., Turner, M., Kotsiopoulos, I., Brereton, P., Keane, J., Bennett, K., Russell, M., Layzell, P., & Zhu, F. (2007). A data-gathering broker as a future-orientated approach to supporting EPR users. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 76(2-3), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.07.012

With the continued expansion of electronic patient record systems ahead of comprehensive evidence, metrics, or future-proofing, health informatics in Europe and beyond is embarking on a faith-driven adventure that also risks data swamping of end-user... Read More about A data-gathering broker as a future-orientated approach to supporting EPR users.

Preliminary results of a study of the completeness and clarity of structured abstracts (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Kitchenham, B., Charters, S., Turner, M., Brereton, P., & Linkman, S. (2007, February). Preliminary results of a study of the completeness and clarity of structured abstracts. Presented at 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2007, Keele University, UK

CONTEXT: Systematic literature reviews largely rely upon using the titles and abstracts of primary studies as the basis for determining their relevance. However, our experience indicates that the abstracts for software engineering papers are frequent... Read More about Preliminary results of a study of the completeness and clarity of structured abstracts.

Investigating the applicability of the evidence-based paradigm to software engineering (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Charters, S., Turner, M., Brereton, P., Kitchenham, B., & Linkman, S. (2006, February). Investigating the applicability of the evidence-based paradigm to software engineering. Presented at ICSE06: International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China

Context: The success of the evidence-based paradigm in other domains, especially medicine, has raised the question of how this might be employed in software engineering. Objectives: To report the research we are doing to evaluate problems associated... Read More about Investigating the applicability of the evidence-based paradigm to software engineering.

Why should they believe us? Determinism, non-determinism and evidence (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D. (2006, February). Why should they believe us? Determinism, non-determinism and evidence. Presented at Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings, Hawaii

In Software Engineering, as in Computing Science, the topics that we teach to our students can be considered as falling into two broad categories: the deterministic, and the non-deterministic. Deterministic topics are those where a specific scenario... Read More about Why should they believe us? Determinism, non-determinism and evidence.

Protocol analysis: A neglected practice (2006)
Journal Article
Owen, S., Budgen, D., & Brereton, P. (2006). Protocol analysis: A neglected practice. Communications of the ACM, 49(2), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1145/1113034.1113039

Protocol analysis is an evidence-gathering technique with an established record in experimental psychology. It can help extract expert knowledge and reasoning and codify experience in a complementary manner. Protocol analysis provides valuable insigh... Read More about Protocol analysis: A neglected practice.

Service-enabled access control for distributed data (2006)
Journal Article
Turner, M., Brereton, P., & Budgen, D. (2006). Service-enabled access control for distributed data. IET Software, 153(1), 24-30. https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-sen%3A20045039

The Service-enabled Data Access Control model (S-DAC), which is a model of authorisation targeted for deployment within a distributed data integration system, is proposed. By combining roles, teams, and identities with contextual information, credent... Read More about Service-enabled access control for distributed data.