Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain

Brereton, Pearl; Kitchenham, Barbara; Budgen, David; Turner, Mark; Khalil, Mohamed Bakr

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2006.07.009

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“…In [2] this author identifies seven electronic information sources of relevance to software engineers in an attempt to perform an exhaustive search: IEEExplore, ACM Digital library, GoogleScholar, Citeseer library, Inspec, ScienceDirect, and EI Compendex. In addition, we include some other important sources in Computer Science to be searched in, such as Google, ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, DBLP, Springer Link and Wiley Online Library.…”

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A survey on business processes management suites

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Garca-Garca

Cuaresma

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Section: Technical and Research Questionsmentioning

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“…The search terms which we used to extract literature from the electronic collections, were constructed using the following steps, as described in (Brereton, Kitchenham, Budgen, Turner, & Khalil, 2007): (1) Define the major terms; (2) Identification of alternative spelling, synonyms or related terms for the major terms and (3) Use the Boolean AND for linking the major terms.…”

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Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: A systematic literature mapping and review

Verdonck

Gailly

Cesare

et al. 2015

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Abstract. Ontology-driven conceptual modeling (ODCM) is still a relatively new research domain in the field of information systems and there is still much discussion on how the research in ODCM should be performed and what the focus of this research should be. Therefore, this article aims to critically survey the existing literature in order to assess the kind of research that has been performed over the years, analyze the nature of the research contributions and establish its current state of the art by positioning, evaluating and interpreting relevant research to date that is related to ODCM. To understand and identify any gaps and research opportunities, our literature study is composed of both a systematic mapping study and a systematic review study. The mapping study aims at structuring and classifying the area that is being investigated in order to give a general overview of the research that has been performed in the field. A review study on the other hand is a more thorough and rigorous inquiry and provides recommendations based on the strength of the found evidence. Our results indicate that there are several research gaps that should be addressed and we further composed several research opportunities that are possible areas for future research. IntroductionConceptual models were introduced to increase understanding and communication of a system or domain among stakeholders. According to Stachowiak (1973), a conceptual model possesses three features: (1) a mapping feature, meaning that a model can be seen as a representation of the 'original' system, which is expressed through a modeling language; (2) a reduction feature, characterizing the model as only a subset of the original system and (3) the pragmatics of a model which describes its intended purpose or objective.Conceptual modeling is the activity of representing aspects of the physical and social world for the purpose of communication, learning and problem solving among human users (Mylopoulos, 1992). Conceptual modeling has gained much attention especially in the field of information systems, for design, analysis and development purposes. Their importance was understood in the 1960s, since they facilitate detection and correction of system development errors (Wand & Weber, 2002). The higher the quality of conceptual models, the earlier the 2 detection and correction of these errors occurs. This increase in attention and importance attributed to conceptual modeling led to the development and introduction of a wide range of various conceptual modeling approaches and techniques. Criticism however arose, stating that these approaches and techniques still lacked a comprehensive and generally acknowledged understanding (Moody, 2005). In addition, many conceptual models lacked an adequate specification of the semantics of the terminology of the underlying models, which led to inconsistent interpretations and uses of knowledge (Grüninger, Atefi, & Fox, 2000). In order to provide a foundation for conceptual modeling, ontologies were introduced. As mentio...

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“…As has been noted by Brereton et al (2007), the domain specific idiosyncrasies of some digital libraries makes literature searching a less satisfying and more arduous task than is desirable. It may be worth investigating the possibility of interoperating the "Finding relevant conceptsseven steps" methodology with digital libraries on a case-by-case basis.…”

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“…The advice on how to proceed invariably mentions the need for structure, rigour, a systematic approach, and comprehensive treatment (Brereton, Kitchenham, Budgen, Turner, & Khalil, 2007;Timmins & McCabe, 2005). Brereton et al (2007, Fig.…”

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“…In their article titled "The Matrix Method of Literature Reviews" by Goldman and Schmalz (2004), a stepwise advice is offered about the entire Literature Review process including the actual 'review' that requires the analysis, synthesis, and validation also mentioned by Brereton et al (2007). These steps, we conjecture, are amenable to underpinning with IT systems.…”

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Empowering Doctoral Candidates in Finding Relevant Concepts in a Literature Set

Dreher

2011

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Research activity connects prior findings with new and emerging ideas in the hope of attracting attention of those in the community who are able to make some sort of profit from the application of those ideas. Finding relevant concepts from among the vast repository of already published ideas is an important challenge for all researchers. Nowadays, there is ample opportunity to take advantage of the empowering aspects of developments in information technology. In this study, we share some ideas to efficiently and effectively find relevant concepts in a given literature set. Our need was to find and tag predetermined concepts from among the scores of research articles that our literature search had delivered -necessarily this was a large enough task to warrant the development of some automated support to find and tag the relevant concepts. We had prior exposure to Adobe ® Acrobat ® Pro and noted that it provides superior 'search and find' facilities; we decided to trial this use for our purposes in the 'Tribes and Cultures' research project. We have devised and trialled a seven step, semi-automated method to assist in finding relevant concepts from within collections of research articles, retrieved as Portable Document Format (PDF) files, from bibliographic databases and digital libraries.

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Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain

Cited by 1,868 publications

References 17 publications

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A survey on business processes management suites

Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: A systematic literature mapping and review

Empowering Doctoral Candidates in Finding Relevant Concepts in a Literature Set

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