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This paper presents a newly-developed robotics programming course and reports the initial results of software engineering education in robotics context. Robotics programming, as a multidisciplinary course, puts equal emphasis on software…

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Simulation methods are among the most ubiquitous methodological tools in statistical science. In particular, statisticians often is simulation to explore properties of statistical functionals in models for which developed statistical theory…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-22 Tyrel Stokes , Ian Shrier , Russell Steele

Empirical methods like experimentation have become a powerful means to drive the field of software engineering by creating scientific evidence on software development, operation, and maintenance, but also by supporting practitioners in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Michael Felderer , Guilherme Horta Travassos

Scientific research involves mathematical modelling in the context of an interactive balance between theory, experiment and computation. However, computational methods and tools are still far from being appropriately integrated in the high…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-08-14 Rui Gomes Neves , Jorge Carvalho Silva , Vítor Duarte Teodoro

One of the important problems of cyber pedagogy is the following: how, knowing the parameters of the student, his initial level of knowledge and the impact of the teacher to predict knowledge of student at subsequent times. Simulation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Robert V Mayer

Empirical software engineering has received much attention in recent years and coined the shift from a more design-science-driven engineering discipline to an insight-oriented, and theory-centric one. Yet, we still face many challenges,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Daniel Méndez Fernández , Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Covid has made online teaching and learning acceptable and students, faculty, and industry professionals are all comfortable with this mode. This comfort can be leveraged to offer an online multi-institutional research-level course in an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pankaj Jalote , Y. Raghu Reddy , Vasudeva Varma

Empirical research in reverse engineering and software protection is crucial for evaluating the efficacy of methods designed to protect software against unauthorized access and tampering. However, conducting such studies with professional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tab , Zhang , Bjorn De Sutter , Christian Collberg , Bart Coppens , Waleed Mebane

Software is at the core of most scientific discoveries today. Therefore, the quality of research results highly depends on the quality of the research software. Rigorous testing, as we know it from software engineering in the industry,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Michael Dorner , Andreas Bauer , Florian Angermeir

Here practical aspects of conducting research via computer simulations are discussed. The following issues are addressed: software engineering, object-oriented software development, programming style, macros, make files, scripts, libraries,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-02 Alexander K. Hartmann , Heiko Rieger

Simulators are a critical component of modern robotics research. Strategies for both perception and decision making can be studied in simulation first before deployed to real world systems, saving on time and costs. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Bhairav Mehta , Ankur Handa , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos

We present a case-study on teaching an undergraduate level course on Software Engineering (second year and fifth semester of bachelors program in Computer Science) at a State University (New Delhi, India) using a novel teaching instruction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Ashish Sureka , Monika Gupta , Dipto Sarkar , Vidushi Chaudhary

The pervasive role played by software in virtually all industries has fostered ever-increasing development of applied research in software engineering. In this chapter, we contribute our experience in using the V-Model as a framework for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Rodrigo Falcão , Andreas Jedlitschka , Frank Elberzhager , Dieter Rombach

Should students be used as experimental subjects in software engineering? Given that students are in many cases readily available and cheap it is no surprise that the vast majority of controlled experiments in software engineering use them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Dror G. Feitelson

Simulation studies are computer experiments that involve creating data by pseudorandom sampling. The key strength of simulation studies is the ability to understand the behaviour of statistical methods because some 'truth' (usually some…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-18 Tim P Morris , Ian R White , Michael J Crowther

Background: Software modelling is a creative yet challenging task. Modellers often find themselves lost in the process, from understanding the modelling problem to solving it with proper modelling strategies and modelling tools. Students…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Shalini Chakraborty , Javier Troya , Lola Burgueño , Grischa Liebel

Action research entered into software engineering as one of the responses to the software engineering research crisis at the end of the last millennium. As one of the challenges in the crisis was the lack of empirical results and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Miroslaw Staron

Ethnography has become one of the established methods for empirical research on software engineering. Although there is a wide variety of introductory books available, there has been no material targeting software engineering students…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yvonne Dittrich , Helen Sharp , Cleidson de Souza

Software Engineering is an applied discipline and concepts are difficult to grasp only at a theoretical level alone. In the context of a project management course, we introduced and evaluated the use of software process simulation (SPS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Nauman bin Ali , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

With the interactivity and multiple representation features, computer simulations lend itself to the guided inquiry learning. However, these simulations are usually designed for post-elementary students. Thus, the aim of this study is to…

Physics Education · Physics 2012-12-03 Sze Yee Lye , Loo Kang Wee