TORCHIANO , Marco

Objective: The main objective of our study is to assess whether the use of UML (Unified Modeling Language) object diagrams improves comprehensibility of software design when this kind of diagrams is added to UML class diagrams. Method: We have conducted a family of four controlled experiments. We involved groups of bachelor and master students....

Context: Model-driven approaches are well-known in the academia but one possible showstopper to a wider adoption in the industry is the limited empirical evidence for their claimed advantages and benefits, that could convince the decision makers. Objective: The aim of this work is gauging one of the claimed benefits of model-driven approaches,...

The Web of Data is an interconnected global dataspace in which discovering resources related to a given resource and recommend relevant ones is still an open research area. This work describes a new recommendation algorithm based on structured data published on the Web (Linked Data). The algorithm exploits existing relationships between...

Data published on the Web following the Linked Data principles has resulted in a global data space called the Web of Data. These principles led to semantically interlink and connect different resources at data level regardless their structure, authoring, location, etc. The tremendous and continuous growth of the Web of Data also implies that...

The increase in the amount of structured data published on the Web using the principles of Linked Data means that now it is more likely to find resources on the Web of Data that represent real life concepts. Discovering and recommending resources on the Web of Data related to a given resource is still an open research area. This work...