Publications

2018

Conference Paper , Catarina Gralha, Daniela Damian, Anthony Wasserman, Miguel Goulão, João Araújo, "The Evolution of Requirements Practices in Software Startups", 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), Gothemburg, Sweden, May 27-June 3, 2018. [doi: 10.1145/3180155.3180158][pdf]

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Journal Paper Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão, "Usability driven DSL development with USE-ME", Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, vol. 51, January 2018, pp 118-157 [doi: 10.1016/j.cl.2017.06.005][pdf]

Barisic2017ComLanPrePrint.pdf

2017

Conference Paper Juliana Medeiros, Alexandre Vasconcelos, Miguel Goulão, Carla Silva, João Araújo, "An approach based on design practices to specify requirements in agile projects", 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2017, Marrakesh, Morocco, April 3-6, 2017.

2016

Conference Paper Lyrene Silva, Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Catarina Gralha, Miguel Goulão, Vasco Amaral, "Exploring Views for Goal-oriented Requirements Comprehension", 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER2016, Gifu, Japan, November 14-17, 2016. (pp 149-163) [doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_12]

Conference Paper Mafalda Santos, Catarina Gralha, Miguel Goulão, João Araújo, Ana Moreira, João Cambeiro, "What is the Impact of Bad Layout in the Understandability of Social Goal Models?", 24th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE 2016), IEEE, Beijing, China, September 12-16, 2016. [doi: 10.1109/RE.2016.51]

Conference Paper Juliana Medeiros, Miguel Goulão, Alexandre Vasconcelos, Carla Silva, "Towards a model about quality of software requirements specification in agile projects", in 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communication Technologies, QUATIC 2016 - SEDES 2016, IEEE, Caparica, Portugal, September 6-9, 2016. (pp. 236-241) [doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2016.058]

Journal Paper Miguel Goulão, Vasco Amaral, Marjan Mernik, "Quality in Model-Driven Engineering: a tertiary study", Software Quality Journal, Springer, September 2016, Volume 24, Issue 3, pp 601–633. [doi:10.1007/s11219-016-9324-8] [pdf]

Editorial Mark Paulk, Ricardo J. Machado, Miguel A. Brito, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão, 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2016) [Electronic Proceedings at IEEExplore] IEEE Computer Society Order Number E5985, ISBN-13: 978-1-5090-3581-6, BMS Part # CFP1671C-USB

Journal Paper Denise Bombonatti, Miguel Goulão, Ana Moreira, "Synergies and Tradeoffs in Software Reuse - a Systematic Mapping Study", Software Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, August 2016. [doi:10.1002/spe.2416; Wiley Online Link]

Editorial João Araújo, Nelly Condori Fernandez, Nelly Bencomo, Toacy Oliveira, Jose Luis de La Vara, Isabel Brito, Miguel Goulão, Santiago Matalonga, Special Section on the 18th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIBSE'15), The Journal of Object Technology, Volume 15, no. 3, June 2016. [doi:10.5381/jot.2016.15.3.e1] [JOT Website]

Conference Paper Denise Bombonatti, Catarina Gralha, Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Miguel Goulão, "Usability of Requirements Techniques - A Systematic Literature Review", 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Requirements Engineering Track, ACM-SAC 2016, Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016. [doi:10.1145/2851613.2851758]

2015

Editorial Harald Störlle, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Human Factors in Modeling (HuFaMo 2015) @ MODELS 2015, CEUR WS Proceedings, Vol , Ottawa, Canada, September 28, 2015. [CEUR-WS Vol 1522]

Conference Paper David Ameller, Xavier Franch, Cristina Gómez, João Araújo, Richard Berntsson Svensson, Stefan Biffl, Jordi Cabot, Vittorio Cortellessa, Maya Daneva, Daniel Mendez Fernández, Ana Moreira, Henry Muccini, Antonio Vallecillo, Manuel Wimmer, Vasco Amaral, Hugo Brunelière, Loli Burgueño, Miguel Goulão, Bernhard Schätz, and Sabine Teufl, Handling Non-Functional Requirements in Model-Driven Development: An Ongoing Industrial Survey, 23rd International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'15) - RE: Next!, IEEE, Ottawa, Canada, August 24-28, 2015. [doi: 10.1109/RE.2015.7320424]

Editorial Miguel Goulão, Santiago Matalonga, "Experimental Software Engineering Latin America Workshop (ESELAW 2015)", CIbSE 2015, Lima, Peru, 2015.

Journal Paper Catarina Gralha, João Araújo, Miguel Goulão, "Metrics for measuring complexity and completeness for social goal models", Information Systems, Elsevier, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.is.2015.03.006

2014

Workshop Paper Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão, and Ademar Aguiar, "Introducing usability concerns early in the DSL development cycle: FlowSL experience report", Model-Driven Development Processes and Practices Workshop Proceedings, MD2P2 2014, CEUR WS Proceedings, Valencia, Spain, September, 2014. (pp. 8-17) [pdf][pdf@CEUR]

Conference Paper André Sabino, Armanda Rodrigues, Miguel Goulão and João Gouveia, “Indirect Keyword Recommendation”, The 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, WIC 2014, August, 11-14, Warsaw, Poland, 2014. [pdf]

Best Paper Award Conference Paper Catarina Gralha, Miguel Goulão, João Araújo, "Identifying modularity improvement opportunities in goal-oriented requirements models", 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2014, Springer, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 16-20, 2014. [pdf][companion site]

Editorial Ricardo Machado, Miguel Goulão, Fernando Brito e Abreu, and João Pascoal Faria, "Introduction to Special Issue: Quality in Information and Communications Technology", Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, ISSN: 1614-5046 (Print) / 1614-5054 (Online), Springer-Verlag, London, February, 2014. (pp. 1-2) doi: 10.1007/s11334-014-0229-z [pdf]

2013

Book Chapter Ana Moreira, João Araújo, Jon Whittle, and Miguel Goulão, "Using Aspects to Model Volatile Concerns", in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-642-38639-8, 2013. (pp. 183-205) doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38640-4_10

Journal Paper Rui Monteiro, João Araújo, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão, and Pedro Patrício, "Adding Interoperabilty to Requirements Models", Software Quality Professional Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 4, American Society for Quality, September, 2013. (pp.16-27) [pdf] (c) American Society for Quality.

Conference Paper Patrícia Espada, Miguel Goulão and João Araújo, "A Framework to Evaluate Complexity and Completeness of KAOS Goal Models", 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2013, LNCS 7908, Springer, Valencia, Spain, June 17-23, 2013. (pp. 562-577) doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38709-8_36 [pdf]

Workshop Paper Catarina Almeida, Miguel Goulão and João Araújo, "A Systematic Comparison of i* Modelling Tools Based on Syntactic and Well-Formedness Rules", 6th International i* (iStar) Workshop, co-located with CAiSE 2013, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Valencia, Spain, June 17-18, 2013. (pp. 43-48). [pdf][pdf@CEUR]

Conference Paper Ana Isabel Fernandes, Miguel Goulão and Armanda Rodrigues, "A Comparison of Maps Application Programming Interfaces", 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2013, Leuven, Belgium, May 14-17, 2013. [pdf][arxiv]

Conference Paper João Araújo, Miguel Goulão, Ana Moreira, Ines Simão, Vasco Amaral and Elisa Baniassad, "Advanced Modularity for Building SPL Feature Models: a Model-Driven Approach", 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Requirements Engineering Track, ACM-SAC 2013, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013. [pdf]

2012

Conference Paper Ankica Barišić, Pedro Monteiro, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Miguel Monteiro, "Patterns for Evaluating Usability of Domain-Specific Languages", Pattern Languages of Programs Conference, PLoP 2012, ACM, October 19-21, 2012. [pdf]

Conference Paper Rui Monteiro, João Araújo, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Pedro Patrício, "Model-Driven Development for Requirements Engineering: The Case of Goal-Oriented Approaches", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2012), IEEE CPS, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3-6, 2012. (pp. 75-84) doi:10.1109/QUATIC.2012.38 [pdf]

Conference Paper Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral and Miguel Goulão, "Usability Evaluation of Domain-Specific Languages", Simpósio de Estudantes de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Software (SEDES'2012), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2012), IEEE CPS, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3, 2012. (pp. 342-347) doi: 10.1109/QUATIC.2012.63 [pdf]

Book Chapter Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Bruno Barroca, "Evaluating the Usability of Domain-Specific Languages", in Marjan Mernik, "Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments" IGI Global, 2013. Web. 9 Aug. 2012. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2092-6, ISBN13: 9781466620926.

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão, Nelson Fonte, Michel Wermelinger and Fernando Brito e Abreu. "Software Evolution Prediction Using Seasonal Time Analysis: a Comparative Study", Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2012), Szeged, Hungary, March 27-30, 2012. (pp. 213-222) [doi: 10.1109/CSMR.2012.30][pdf | Data file (zip)][pdf @ Open Research Online].

2011

Workshop Paper Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Bruno Barroca. "Quality in Use of Domain Specific Language: a Case Study", Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2011), held at Splash 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, October 24, 2011. [pdf][doi: 10.1145/2089155.2089170]

Conference Paper Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Bruno Barroca. "How to reach a usable DSL? Moving toward a Systematic Evaluation", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM'2011), held at Models 2011, Wellingnton, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011. [pdf] Ankica Barišić, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão and Bruno Barroca. "Quality in Use of DSLs: Current Evaluation Methods", Proceedings of the INFORUM'2011, Coimbra, Portugal - September 8-9, 2011 [pdf].

Workshop Paper Patrícia Espada, Miguel Goulão and João Araújo. "Measuring Complexity and Completeness of KAOS Goal Models", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE 2011), at the 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2011), Trento, Italy - August 30, 2011. [pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão, Ana Moreira, João Araújo and João Pedro Santos. "Streamlining scenario modeling with Model-Driven Development: a case study", Proceedings of the Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (MoDRE 2011), at the 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2011), Trento, Italy - August 29, 2011. [pdf]

2010

Conference Paper João Pedro Santos, Ana Moreira, João Araújo and Miguel Goulão. "Increasing Quality in Scenario Modelling with Model-Driven Development", Proceedings of 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC'2010), Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, September 29 - October 2, 2010. [pdf]

Conference Paper Pedro Gabriel, Miguel Goulão and Vasco Amaral. "Do Software Languages Engineers Evaluate their Languages?". Proceedings of the XIII Congreso Iberoamericano en "Software Engineering" (CIbSE'2010), Universidad del Azuay, ISBN-978-9978-325-10-0, Cuenca, Ecuador, April 2010. [pdf][arXiv]

Workshop Paper Arlindo Lima, Miguel Goulão and Miguel Pessoa Monteiro. "Evidence-Based Comparison of Modularity Support Between Java and Object Teams". Proceedings of Empirical Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques (ESCOT 2010), at 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'2010), Rennes and Saint Malo, France, 2010. [pdf][arXiv]

2008

Ph.D. Thesis Miguel Goulão. "Component-Based Software Engineering: a Quantitative Approach". PhD Dissertation, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2008. [pdf]

2007

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu. "Modeling the Experimental Software Engineering Process". 6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2007), IEEE Computer Society, Lisboa, Portugal, 2007.[doi:10.1109/QUATIC.2007.18] [pdf]

Book Chapter Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu. "An overview of metrics-based approaches to support software components reusability assessment" in Software Quality Measurement: Concepts and Approaches, ICFAI Books, 2007. [pdf]

2006

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "On the Influence of Practitioners' Expertise in Component-Based Software Reviews". In Proc. of the 10th ECOOP Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering, QAOOSE'2006, Nantes, France, July, 3-7, 2006. [pdf]

2005

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão, "Component-Based Software Engineering: a Quantitative Approach". In OOPSLA'2005 Conference Companion, 20th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications Doctoral Symposium, San Diego, California, October, 2005. [doi:10.1145/1094855.1094953][pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Formal Definition of Metrics Upon the CORBA Component Model". In Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Architectures, QoSA 2005 and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, LNCS 3712, Erfurt, Germany, September, 2005. [Metamodel file|pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Composition Assessment Metrics for CBSE ". In Proc. of 31st Euromicro Conference, Component-Based Software Engineering Track, Porto, Portugal. August 30th - September 3rd, 2005. [pdf]

Journal Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Validação Cruzada de Métricas para Componentes", IEEE Transactions Latin America, Vol. 3, N. 1, ISSN 1548-0992, pp. 127-136, March 2005. (Extended version of "Cross-Validation of a Component Metrics Suite". In Proc. of JISBD'2004, Málaga, Spain. November, 2004. [html][pdf]

Editorial Marcus Alanen, Jordi Cabot, Miguel Goulão and José Sáez, "Doctoral Symposium". In N. Jardim Nunes, B. Selic, A. Rodrigues da Silva, A. Toval Alvarez (eds.), UML Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2004 Satellite Activities (Doctoral Symposium), Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2004. Volume 3297 of LNCS, Springer Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-25081-6. 2005. [pdf]

2004

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Cross-Validation of a Component Metrics Suite". In Proc. of JISBD'2004, Málaga, Spain. November, 2004. [pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Software Components Evaluation: an Overview". In Proc. of CAPSI'2004, Lisbon, Portugal. November, 2004. [pdf]

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Independent Validation of a Component Metrics Suite". In Proc. of QAOOSE'2004 at the ECOOP'2004, Oslo, Norway. June, 2004. [pdf]

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Formalizing metrics for COTS". In Proc. of the International Workshop on Models and Processes for the Evaluation of COTS Components (MPEC'04) at the ICSE'2004, Edimburgh, Scotland. May, 2004 [pdf].

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão, "Engenharia de Software Baseado em Componentes: uma Abordagem Quantitativa". In Proc. of Simpósio de Estudantes de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Software (SEDES'2004), at 1º Congresso Português de Engenharia de Software, April, 2004. [pdf]

2003

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Bridging the gap between Acme and UML 2.0 for CBD". In Proc. of Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems Workshop (SAVCBS'2003) at the ESEC/FSE'2003, Helsinki, Finland. September, 2003. [pdf]

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão, "CBSE: a Quantitative Approach". PhD Workshop at ECOOP' 2003. Darmstadt, Germany. July, 2003. [pdf]

2002

Technical Report Miguel Goulão, "Engenharia de Software Baseado em Componentes: uma Abordagem Quantitativa". Technical Report. Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. December, 2002. (in Portuguese) [pdf]

Conference Paper Aline Lúcia Baroni, Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Avoiding the Ambiguity of Quantitative Data Extraction: An Approach to Improve the Quality of Metrics Results". In Proc. of Work in Progress Session at the 28th EUROMICRO Conference, Dortmund, Germany. September, 2002. [pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "Towards a Component Quality Model". In Proc. of Work in Progress Session at the 28th EUROMICRO Conference, Dortmund, Germany. September, 2002. [pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "The Quest for Software Components Quality". In Proc. of COMPSAC'2002, Oxford, England. August, 2002. [pdf]

Workshop Paper Miguel Goulão and Fernando Brito e Abreu, "From Objects to Components - A Quantitative Experiment". In Proc. of QAOOSE'2002, Malaga, Spain. June, 2002. [pdf]

2001

Journal Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu and Miguel Goulão, "A Merit-Factor Approach to the Modularization of Object-Oriented Software Systems". L'Objet, Hermes Publisher, 2001. [pdf]

Conference Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu and Miguel Goulão, "Coupling and Cohesion as Modularization Drivers: Are we being over-persuaded?", 5th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2001), IEEE Computer Society Press, Lisboa, Portugal, March 2001.[pdf]

1999

M.Sc. Thesis Miguel Goulão. "Controlo da Evolução de Sistemas Legados: uma Abordagem Quantitativa", M.Sc. Dissertation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 1999.

Workshop Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu, Luís Ochoa and Miguel Goulão, "The GOODLY Design Language for MOOD2 Metrics Collection", proceedings of the International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering, ECOOP'99, June, 1999, Lisboa, Portugal. [pdf]

Workshop Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu and Miguel Goulão, "Designing and Coding Object-Oriented Systems: An Introductory Course Experience Report", proceedings of the Workshop on Introducing OO Design and Programming with Special Emphasis on Concrete Examples, ECOOP'99, June, 1999, Lisboa, Portugal. [pdf]

Best Paper Award Conference Paper António Silva Monteiro, Miguel Goulão, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Alberto Bigotte de Almeida and Pedro Sousa, "Controlling the Evolution of Legacy Systems: Defect Reporting and Tracking using Internet Technology", Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Quality, European Organization for Quality, Vienna, Austria, April 1999. [pdf]

Conference Paper António Silva Monteiro, Miguel Afonso Goulão, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Alberto Bigotte de Almeida and Pedro Sousa, "A Software Defect Report and Tracking System in an Intranet", proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'99), IEEE Computer Society, Amsterdam, Holland, March, 1999. [pdf]

1998

Conference Paper Miguel Afonso Goulão, António Silva Monteiro, Fernando Brito e Abreu and Alberto Bigotte de Almeida: "Controlo da Evolução de Sistemas Legados", proceedings of QUATIC'98 - 3º Encontro Nacional para a Qualidade nas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicações, Guimarães, November 1998. Selected for publication in Sistemas de Informação, nº9, pp.19-28. [pdf]

Conference Paper Miguel Afonso Goulão, António Silva Monteiro, José Furtado Martins, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Alberto Bigotte de Almeida and Pedro Sousa, "A Software Evolution Experiment", proceedings of the European Software Control and Metrics Conference, Rome, Italy, May, 1998. [pdf]

1996

Conference Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu, Rita Esteves, and Miguel Afonso Goulão, "The Design of Eiffel Programs: Quantitative Evaluation Using the MOOD Metrics", proceedings of TOOLS'96 USA, Santa Barbara, Califórnia, USA., July 1996. [pdf]

1995

Conference Paper Fernando Brito e Abreu, Miguel Afonso Goulão and Rita Esteves, "Toward the Design Quality Evaluation of Object-Oriented Software Systems", proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Quality, Austin, Texas, USA, October 1995. [pdf]

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