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This column celebrates 40 years of IEEE Software through a retrospective on Requirements Engineering. Two seasoned experts discuss the discipline’s evolution from structured methodologies to AI-driven approaches. Finally, we speculate on future trends.
This column presents the evolution of sentiment analysis from a requirements engineering perspective. With large language models, the technology is now accessible to all. From novices to expert users, we discuss suitable ways to get started.
The C programming language, while offering high performance and low-level control, is memory-unsafe. This makes it prone to programming errors that can result in serious software vulnerabilities and system instability. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of transitioning a large code base from C to a memory-safe alternative, specifically Rust, in the context of a large company in telecom
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is a relatively new regulation set out in the European Union (EU). It lays out various requirements for AI systems that are placed on the market in the EU. This paper provides a critical and differentiated view of its requirements from a software engineering perspective. A detailed analysis of the legal document shows what requirements are set out for different
This paper addresses the time-optimal path-tracking problem for redundant manipulators. By integrating path-velocity control into existing task-space robot controllers, the task-space motion can be dynamically scaled to satisfy the torque constraint under both kinematic and dynamic uncertainties. Numerical simulations and experiments demonstrate that trajectory feasibility and path-tracking accura
Software analytics (SA) is often proposed as a tool to support software engineering (SE) tasks. Several secondary studies on SA have been published, some published within the same calendar year. This presents an opportunity to take a meta-perspective and examine how the field of SA has been conceptualized and synthesized so far. By analyzing how SA is defined, which topics are emphasized, what sea
The fast development of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) services—such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E—have within a short period of time gained immense uptake and popularity. At the same time, such services have given rise to fundamental challenges from a copyright perspective. Court proceedings have been initiated in many jurisdictions on the compatibility of such services with copyright
This paper addresses the path-tracking problem of time-optimal trajectories under model uncertainties, by proposing a real-time predictive scaling algorithm. The algorithm is formulated as a convex optimization problem, designed to balance the trade-off between improving feasibility and time optimality of a trajectory. The predicted trajectory is scaled based on the presence of path segments that
In this issue, “25 Years Ago” revisits the article “Out of Control Because of Harmonics: An Analysis of the Harmonic Response of an Inverter Locomotive,” by Erik Möllerstedt and Bo Bernhardsson, in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 70–81. Below is an excerpt from the article.
Årsrapport 2004 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet 1 Årsrapport 2016 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet Enheten för medicinens historia har under året 2016 fortsatt sin verksamhet som en fristående enhet inom Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper (IKVL) i Lund (prefekt Bo Baldetorp, sektion 5 med chef Karin Jirs
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Malawi PEA report Political economy of inclusive agricultural intensification Tanzania Country Report Anna Mdee1, Alesia Ofori Dedaa2 and Gasper Mdee3 November 2017 Reviewed by Martin Prowse and Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt 1 University of Leeds/ Overseas Development Institute 2 University of Leeds 3 Independent Consultant Pa ge 2 “Agricultural intensification has been neither inevitable nor continuo
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/sites/keg.lu.se.en/files/tanzania_pea_report.pdf - 2026-05-23
Open and shared government data and services offer an instrument for achieving innovation, interoperability, and transparency in public services but require relevant competency, resources, and culture to realise, something that the public sector actors often lack. In this case study, we exemplify how these challenges to data sharing may be tackled through horizontal coordination in the case of Tra
Oily wastewater presents a serious environmental challenge, demanding sustainable and regenerative membrane technologies. Here, we report a green and scalable method for fabricating skin-replaceable cellulose membranes (SRC-M) from jute agro-waste, using a NaOH/urea activation route and argon-pressurized deposition onto ceramic supports. The resulting Cellulose II-based asymmetric membranes exhibi
Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by a prominent desmoplastic stroma, which plays a crucial role in tumor biology and treatment resistance. While the stromal compartment is a defining histopathological feature of PDAC, its prognostic significance remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to quantify the stromal content in PDAC using digital pathology and
Discovering topological quantum materials that combine nontrivial topology with large bandgaps and experimentally accessible signatures remains a central pursuit in condensed matter physics. We demonstrate, through first-principles calculations and tight-binding modeling, that pyrite-type osmium disulfide (OsS2) is a fragile topological insulator (FTI) characterized by an exceptionally large direc
High-pressure blocking events are anticyclones that persist over a region for a long time. Such events prevent vertical mixing of air pollutants due to the subsidence inversion created by the anticyclone. This study investigates the relationship of aerosol concentrations during periods of high-pressure blocking events in southern Sweden for the rural location of Vavihill and the urban location of
Objectives Critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are at an increased risk of acquiring bacterial bloodstream infections (BSI). We aimed to describe patient characteristics, risk factors, and the microbiological spectrum in blood cultures and evaluate the impact of ICU-acquired BSI on outcomes in a Nordic setting. Methods A prospective multicenter cohort study w
Carefully selecting the source data is crucial to achieve high performance of transfer learning methods for brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). Especially so in settings where a large amount of source data is available, and finding the optimal source is not computationally feasible. This paper presents a novel method for source selection, the so-called Transfer Performance Predictor (TPP) method. Th
