Benoît Vanderose

• Professor
• University of Namur

Cognitive biases appear during code review. They significantly impact the creation of feedback and how it is interpreted by developers. These biases can lead to illogical reasoning and decision-making, violating one of the main hypotheses supporting code review: developers' accurate and objective code evaluation. This paper explores harmful cases c...

Open Government Data (OGD) is a build-up of the data accumulated in the government organisations pertaining to the structural and functional dimensions and it is imperative for OGD to be high-value for facilitating value creation and innovation. The present study purports to provide a launchpad to the aforementioned truism by advancing the concept...

Governments have been publishing Open Government Data (OGD) on online portals to encourage the development of value-added services. The success of these services depends heavily on the quality of OGD and its metadata. Several methods have been proposed to evaluate this quality, but some rely on manual assessments, which can be time-consuming and ex...

Governments have utilized Open Government Data (OGD) portals as a means to enhance citizen comprehension of government policies. However, conventional portals are primarily designed for data publication, rather than presentation in a user-friendly manner that facilitates citizen understanding. This limitation is attributable to the lack of time, te...

Smart cities are receiving a lot of attention from researchers and practitioners as they are considered potential solutions to challenges (e.g., traffic congestion and waste management) faced by cities. As a result, the term “smart city” is recurring in political discourses and the news. Moreover, smart cities are transitioning from strong and tech...

Purpose: The study seeks to investigate the quality of metadata associated with the Open Government Data (OGD) portals of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) constituents-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative framework, supported by extant literat...

Open Government Data (OGD) consists of data released by publishers to drive the creation of innovative services by developers, and ultimately deliver value to citizens. However, the lack of communication between the different OGD stakeholders impedes the realization of this objective. The goal of this paper is to fill the technical aspects of this...

Purpose Over the past decade, governments around the world have implemented open government data (OGD) policies to make their data publicly available, with collaboration and citizen engagement being one of the main goals. However, even though a lot of data is published, only a few citizens are aware of its existence and usefulness. The purpose of t...

The use of individual visualizations for Open Government Data (OGD) has been shown not to be entirely efficient in engaging citizens. Dashboards constitute a promising solution but how they should be designed and applied in an OGD context remains under-investigated. This paper examines whether the use of well-designed dashboards can increase citize...

Many governments have published their data on the web with the goals of improving transparency and stimulating innovation, among others. In order to achieve these goals, users must be able to discover and understand these Open Government Data (OGD). The use of semantic annotation has been proven in previous studies to be effective in meeting this n...

Open Government Data (OGD) consists of data released by publishers to drive the creation of innovative services by developers, and ultimately deliver value to citizens. However, the lack of communication between the different OGD stakeholders impedes the realization of this objective. The goal of this paper is to fill the technical aspects of this...

Over the past decade, governments around the world have implemented Open Government Data (OGD) policies to make their data publicly available, with collaboration and citizen engagement being one of the main goals. However, even though a lot of data is published, only a few citizens are aware of its existence and usefulness, which hinders fulfilling...

Enabling users to better understand government actions is one reason why governments have sought to open their data to the public. Data storytelling tools help to achieve this goal by facilitating users to turn data into stories. However, existing tools are not able to provide the necessary features to overcome the barriers users face at different...

Over the past decade, governments around the world have implemented Open Government Data (OGD) policies to make their data publicly available , with collaboration and citizen engagement being one of the main goals. However, even though a lot of data is published, only a few citizens are aware of its existence and usefulness, which hinders fulfillin...

Open government data (OGD) refers to data made available online by governments for anyone to freely reuse. Non-expert users, however, lack the necessary technical skills and therefore face challenges when trying to exploit it. Amongst these challenges, finding useful datasets for citizens is very difficult as their expectations are not always ident...

In the past years, with the development and widespread of digi- tal technologies, everyday life has been profoundly transformed. The general public, as well as specialized audiences, have to face an ever-increasing amount of knowledge and learn new abilities. The EASEAI workshop series addresses that challenge by look- ing at software engineering,...

Open government data (OGD) refers to data made available online by governments for anyone to freely reuse. Non-expert users, however, lack the necessary technical skills and therefore face challenges when trying to exploit it. Amongst these challenges, finding useful datasets for citizens is very difficult as their expectations are not always ident...

Purpose: Governments around the world engage in digitalization projects to improve their internal functioning and the delivery of information and services to their users, including citizens. There are several ways to implement this digitalization and, therefore, different roles for citizens, who can be considered as customers, as participants, and...

Code completion is an important feature of integrated development environments (IDEs). It allows developers to produce code faster, especially novice ones who are not fully familiar with APIs and others code. Previous works on code completion have mainly exploited static type systems of programming languages or code history of the project under dev...

Hackathons are problem-focused programming events that allow conceiving, implementing, and presenting digital innovations. The number of participants is one of the key success factors of hackathons. In order to maximize that number, it is essential to understand what motivates people to participate. Previous work on the matter focused on quantitati...

Hackathons are problem-focused programming events that allow conceiving, implementing, and presenting digital innovations. The number of participants is one of the key success factors of hackathons. In order to maximize that number, it is essential to understand what motivates people to participate. Previous work on the matter focused on quantitati...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to study how current research reports reflect on using public displays in the smart city. In particular, it looks at the state-of-the-art of this domain from two angles. On the one hand, it investigates the participation of citizens in the development of public displays. On the other hand, it aims at understa...

Full questionnaire and detailed respondents frequencies for the paper Eliciting Information Needs for Open Data Visualization: The Case of the Belgian Train Network (in submission)

Questionnaire and Interview Guide used to collect data from hackathon participants about motivators, demotivators and potential for citizen participation.

In the past years, everyday life has been profoundly transformed by the development and widespread of digital technologies. Gen- eral, as well as specialized audiences, have to face an ever-increasing amount of knowledge and learn new abilities. This rst edition of the EASEAI workshop tried to address that challenge by look- ing at software enginee...

In the last decades, governments have strongly increased their use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the service delivery towards their users. However, this development of ICT solutions must be performed in collaboration with the users so that the e-government services are aligned with their requirement and needs. Gathe...

User participation is often reported as a success factor for public e-service development. However, in practice, project managers face challenges to involve users due to lack of methodology, time, or context awareness. In order to tackle this lack of context awareness, we describe a conceptual model summarizing the impact of four influencing factor...

As citizens have more and more opportunities to participate in public life, it is essential that administrations integrate this participation in their e-government processes. A smarter, more participatory, governance is a well-recognized and essential part of any city that wants to become “Smart” and generate public value. In this chapter, we will...

In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICT) have allowed governments to improve their internal functioning and to improve the delivery of information and services to their users. This application of ICT in governments has been conceptualized as "e-government". However, more recently, smart cities emerged as a locally-embedded...

E-government refers to the use of Information and Communication Technologies by governments to deliver their information and services in an optimal way. For a long time, traditional systems development methods such as the waterfall model have been prevailing in the development of e-government services. However, these methods fail to welcome the cha...

E-government is becoming a mature research field thanks to the proliferation of papers about this changing paradigm. Among this research, the participation of citizens in e-government is a topic that has particularly stimulated numerous discussions. This participation (referred to as " e-participation ") is often reduced to the democratic participa...

The challenges of adopting agile software development methods vary from one context to another. This work investigates how the European and Asian cultural backgrounds may impact agile practices adoption. The focus is on three countries: Belgium, Malaysia and Singapore. We gathered data about practices, challenges and impediments encountered by so...

Regarding the proven benefits of agile software development , more and more practitioners are becoming interested in agile methods and have to deal with the complexity and costs of the adoption process. In this context, agile experts argue that prior to any agile method or practice adoption, its relevance to the organization and team should be eval...

Achieving administrative efficiency is one of the objectives pursued by e-governance. Many aspects of government to citizen and government to business exchanges may be streamlined through an adequate use of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, among the various challenges facing e-governance, legal issues regarding data protec...

Adopting agile software development methods is a wide and complex organisational change that usually impacts several aspects of the organisation (e.g., its structure, culture, management practices, produced artefacts, technologies in use, etc). In order to successfully handle the several key challenges, it's crucial to understand the organisation c...

Assessing software quality through quantitative and reliable information is a major concern of software engineering. However, software is a complex product involving interrelated models with different abstraction levels targeting different stakeholders and requiring specific quality assurance methods. As a result, although Software Quality has gain...

Software development practitioners are increasingly interested in adopting agile methods and generally recommend customisation so that the adopted method can fit the organisational reality. Many studies from the literature report agile adoption and customisation experiences but most of them are hardly generalisable and few are metric-based. They th...

In the context of an ERDF-funded project, we have carried out a survey to assess the state-of-the-practice in Walloon companies with respect to the use of processes, techniques and tools related to software quality. With this survey, we wish to find out what are the most common industry practices with respect to software quality, how these practice...

In today's dynamic market environments, producing high quality software rapidly and efficiently is crucial. In order to allow fast and reliable development processes, several agile methodologies have been designed and are now quite popular. Although existing agile methodologies are abundant, companies are increasingly interested in the construction...

Several software quality models can be found in the literature with different status regarding normalization issues. Besides, a vast amount of assessment and measurement methods have been proposed in order to monitor the different quality characteristics of various artefacts. The difficulty to integrate them meaningfully into the development proces...

In this article we present an ongoing interuniversity research collaboration in the context of a large ERDF-funded research project aiming to enhance and support the quality of evolving software-intensive systems. The project focuses on two aspects in particular, namely the development of a quality metamodel for measuring and controlling the qualit...

The goal of this paper is to introduce a work-in-progress approach that intends to formalize and facilitate empirical studies in Software Engineering in general and in Model-Driven Engineering in par-ticular. The main idea is to use a detailed model of software that makes explicit the different intermediate models used at the different levels of ab...