Knowledge Management for Promoting Update of Systematic Literature Reviews: An Experience Report

Felizardo, Katia Romero; Souza, Érica Ferreira de; Malacrida, Tamiris; Petrillo, Fábio; Hallé, Stéphane; Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli; Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi

doi:10.1109/seaa51224.2020.00080

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“…In the medicine field, SLR update has a consolidated process [7,8]. Also in SE, there are several initiatives on SLR updates such as on establishing the SLR update process [9,10], searching for new/updated evidence [11,12], selecting updated evidence [6] and experience reports [13,14]. Despite the effort of the SE community to keep SLR updated, a recent systematic mapping [15] showed that only 22 SLRs in SE were updated.…”

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“…Creating and maintaining SLRs up-to-date demand a significant effort for reasons such as the rapid increase in the amount of evidence [16,17] and the limitation of available databases [18]. Furthermore, the lack of detailed protocol documentation and data availability make the SLR update process even more difficult since most of the tacit knowledge from the SLR conduction is lost [19].…”

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Continuous Systematic Literature Review: An Approach for Open Science

Napoleão,

Petrillo,

Hallé

2021

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Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) play an important role in the Evidence-Based Software Engineering scenario. With the advance of the computer science field and the growth of research publications, new evidence continuously arises. This fact impacts directly on the purpose of keeping SLRs up-to-date which could lead researchers to obsolete conclusions or decisions about a research problem or investigation. Creating and maintaining SLRs up-to-date demand a significant effort due to several reasons such as the rapid increase in the amount of evidence, limitation of available databases and lack of detailed protocol documentation and data availability. Conventionally, in software engineering SLRs are not updated or updated intermittently leaving gaps between updates during which time the SLR may be missing important new research. In order to address these issues, we propose the concept, process and tooling support of Continuous Systematic Literature Review (CSLR) in SE aiming to keep SLRs constantly updated with the promotion of open science practices. This positional paper summarizes our proposal and approach under development.

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Continuous Systematic Literature Review: An Approach for Open Science

Napoleão,

Petrillo,

Hallé

2021

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Sustainable systematic literature reviews

dos Santos,

Iwazaki,

Felizardo

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Information and Software Technology

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Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering

Karras,

Wernlein,

Klünder

et al. 2023

2023 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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Background.] Empirical research in requirements engineering (RE) is a constantly evolving topic, with a growing number of publications. Several papers address this topic using literature reviews to provide a snapshot of its "current" state and evolution. However, these papers have never built on or updated earlier ones, resulting in overlap and redundancy. The underlying problem is the unavailability of data from earlier works. Researchers need technical infrastructures to conduct sustainable literature reviews. [Aims.] We examine the use of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) as such an infrastructure to build and publish an initial Knowledge Graph of Empirical research in RE (KG-EmpiRE) whose data is openly available. Our long-term goal is to continuously maintain KG-EmpiRE with the research community to synthesize a comprehensive, up-todate, and long-term available overview of the state and evolution of empirical research in RE. [Method.] We conduct a literature review using the ORKG to build and publish KG-EmpiRE which we evaluate against competency questions derived from a published vision of empirical research in software (requirements) engineering for 2020 -2025. [Results.] From 570 papers of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (2000 -2022), we extract and analyze data on the reported empirical research and answer 16 out of 77 competency questions. These answers show a positive development towards the vision, but also the need for future improvements. [Conclusions.] The ORKG is a ready-to-use and advanced infrastructure to organize data from literature reviews as knowledge graphs. The resulting knowledge graphs make the data openly available and maintainable by research communities, enabling sustainable literature reviews.

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Knowledge Management for Promoting Update of Systematic Literature Reviews: An Experience Report

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Continuous Systematic Literature Review: An Approach for Open Science

Continuous Systematic Literature Review: An Approach for Open Science

Sustainable systematic literature reviews

Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering

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