scholarly journals Privacy Assessment in Android Apps: A Systematic Mapping Study

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 1999
Author(s):  
Jose M. Del Alamo ◽  
Danny Guaman ◽  
Belen Balmori ◽  
Ana Diez
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Android Apps ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Domains

Android apps are daily installed by billions of users worldwide, who grant access to an extensive set of sensitive personal data. Different techniques have been developed over the years to understand how apps protect or harm their users’ privacy. However, these results have been produced in different research domains and addressing privacy from different perspectives, resulting in a growing but scattered body of knowledge. To bridge this gap, we have carried out a systematic mapping study to provide practitioners and researchers with an overview of the state-of-the-art technique, published between 2016 and 2020, to assess privacy in Android apps. In this paper, we highlight the most relevant findings, identify and analyse the most pressing gaps, and discuss the promising research directions.

scholarly journals Technology-enhanced and game based learning for children with special needs: a systematic mapping study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose A. Gallud ◽  
Monica Carreño ◽  
Ricardo Tesoriero ◽  
Andrés Sandoval ◽  
María D. Lozano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractTechnology-based education of children with special needs has become the focus of many research works in recent years. The wide range of different disabilities that are encompassed by the term “special needs”, together with the educational requirements of the children affected, represent an enormous multidisciplinary challenge for the research community. In this article, we present a systematic literature review of technology-enhanced and game-based learning systems and methods applied on children with special needs. The article analyzes the state-of-the-art of the research in this field by selecting a group of primary studies and answering a set of research questions. Although there are some previous systematic reviews, it is still not clear what the best tools, games or academic subjects (with technology-enhanced, game-based learning) are, out of those that have obtained good results with children with special needs. The 18 articles selected (carefully filtered out of 614 contributions) have been used to reveal the most frequent disabilities, the different technologies used in the prototypes, the number of learning subjects, and the kind of learning games used. The article also summarizes research opportunities identified in the primary studies.

scholarly journals A Systematic Mapping Study on Privacy by Design in Software Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ehecatl Morales-Trujillo ◽  
Gabriel Alberto García-Mireles ◽  
Erick Orlando Matla-Cruz ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Privacy By Design ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping

Protecting personal data in current software systems is a complex issue that requires legal regulations and constraints to manage personal data as well as a methodological support to develop software systems that would safeguard data privacy of their respective users. Privacy by Design (PbD) approach has been proposed to address this issue and has been applied to systems development in a variety of application domains. The aim of this work is to determine the presence of PbD and its extent in software development efforts. A systematic mapping study was conducted in order to identify relevant literature that collects PbD principles and goals in software development as well as methods and/or practices that support privacy aware software development. 53 selected papers address PbD mostly from a theoretical perspective with proposals validation based primarily on experiences or examples. The findings suggest that there is a need to develop privacy-aware methods to be integrated at all stages of software development life cycle and validate them in industrial settings.

Research on Energy Efficiency of Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 588-589 ◽  
pp. 2088-2092
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ahmad ◽  
Yun Wei Dong ◽  
Bin Gu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Embedded Systems ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Research Type

The main object of this study is to systematically review existing research on energy efficiency of embedded systems in order to identify investigated aspects and needs for future research. We have conducted a systematic mapping study of the state-of-the-art on energy efficiency of embedded systems. 186 papers have been identified as primary studies from year 1994 to 2011 and classified by research focus, research type, and contribution type. 71% of the research papers are solutions proposals; power estimation is the most investigated aspect in terms of research focus (34%) and majority of the studies contributed in terms of methods.

scholarly journals Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2960
Author(s):  
Selina Demi ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Mary Sánchez-Gordón
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Engineering Applications ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Collaborative Software ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

The novel, yet disruptive blockchain technology has witnessed growing attention, due to its intrinsic potential. Besides the conventional domains that benefit from such potential, such as finance, supply chain and healthcare, blockchain use cases in software engineering have emerged recently. In this study, we aim to contribute to the body of knowledge of blockchain-oriented software engineering by providing an adequate overview of the software engineering applications enabled by blockchain technology. To do so, we carried out a systematic mapping study and identified 22 primary studies. Then, we extracted data within the research type, research topic and contribution type facets. Findings suggest an increasing trend of studies since 2018. Additionally, findings reveal the potential of using blockchain technologies as an alternative to centralized systems, such as GitHub, Travis CI, and cloud-based package managers, and also to establish trust between parties in collaborative software development. We also found out that smart contracts can enable the automation of a variety of software engineering activities that usually require human reasoning, such as the acceptance phase, payments to software engineers, and compliance adherence. In spite of the fact that the field is not yet mature, we believe that this systematic mapping study provides a holistic overview that may benefit researchers interested in bringing blockchain to the software industry, and practitioners willing to understand how blockchain can transform the software development industry.

scholarly journals STATE OF THE ART CROWFUNDING DALAM KONTEKS KEUANGAN ENTREPRENEURIAL (Studi Pemetaan Sistematis dan Analisis Co-Authorship Pada Basis Data Scopus)

AdBispreneur ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Margo Purnomo ◽  
Yogi Sugiarto Maulana ◽  
Sugiartana ◽  
Endro Tjahjono
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Entrepreneurial Finance ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Bibliometric Studies

This article aims to examine the state-of-the-art or the latest developments and achievements in the field of crowdfunding in the context of entrepreneurial finance (CF-EF). For this reason, systematic mapping studies (SMS) and bibliometric studies in the Scopus database are used. The SMS output shows that 69 documents met the inclusion criteria, the start of publication recorded in 2013 and the dominant author from Europe in the Q1 journal. Articles focusing on equity-based crowdfunding (CF) studies as well as articles in the category evaluation paper dominate the document. Furthermore, the bibliometric study output with co-authorship analysis on VOSviewer application shows that the cohesiveness of the authors in publishing CF-EF was reached starting in 2018 and 8 groups of authors' collaboration were identified. Author's collaboration until early 2020 generally exploits equity-based CFs. While donation-based CF, credit-based CF and dedicated-based CF need further exploration. Although relying on one database, this study has revealed a CF-EF map that can be an initial reference for further research to advance CF-EF. Artikel ini bertujuan mengkaji state-of-the-art atau perkembangan dan pencapaian terkini di bidang crowdfunding dalam konteks entrepreneurial finance (CF-EF). Untuk itu, systematic mapping study (SMS) dan bibliometric study pada basis data Scopus digunakan. Output SMS menunjukkan bahwa 69 dokumen memenuhi kriteria inklusi, awal publikasi terdata pada tahun 2013 dan penulis dominan dari Eropa pada jurnal Q1. Artikel dengan fokus kajian equity-based crowdfunding (CF) serta artikel berkategori evaluation paper mendominasi dokumen. Selanjutnya, output bibliometric study dengan analisis co-authorship pada aplikasi VOSviewer menunjukkan bahwa kohesivitas penulis dalam memublikasikan CF-EF tercapai mulai tahun 2018 dan teridentifikasi 8 kelompok kolaborasi penulis. Kolaborasi penulis sampai awal 2020 umumnya mengeksploitasi tentang equity-based CF. Sementara donation-based CF, credit-based CF dan dedicated-based CF perlu eksplorasi lebih lanjut. Walaupun mengandalkan satu basis data, penelitian ini telah mengungkap peta CF-EF yang dapat menjadi rujukan awal penelitian selanjutnya untuk memajukan CF-EF. 

scholarly journals Defining the territory size of a Geographical Indication

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Alex Victor do Rosário ◽  
Francisco Valdivino Rocha Lima ◽  
João Antônio Belmino Santos
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Territory Size ◽  
Geographical Indications ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Relevant Factor ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
The Subject

The objective of this study is to map articles that present models for determining the territory size of Geographical Indications (GIs), a relevant factor for the management of GIs that is poorly explored in studies on the subject. The study was undertaken as a systematic mapping study (SMS), whose main objective is to identify accessible facts about a given research topic, which is also the most suitable approach when aiming to analyze the state of the art of a subject with little evidence available in the literature. Using the Scopus and Web of Science databases, in which 671 results were found, and the StArt tool to select the articles, 652 articles were excluded (30 duplicates and 622 that did not meet the inclusion criteria established in the systematic mapping protocol). Then, after a complete reading of the texts of the 19 remaining articles, 14 were excluded. Thus, this study included only five articles in which GI size models were developed, the oldest of which was published in 2007 and the most recent in 2021. We therefore conclude that few studies are available in the literature on this theme.

Evaluation Techniques for Chatbot Usability: A Systematic Mapping Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (11n12) ◽  
pp. 1673-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranci Ren ◽  
John W. Castro ◽  
Silvia T. Acuña ◽  
Juan de Lara
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Interaction Techniques ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
Evaluation Techniques

Background: The use of chatbots has increased considerably in recent years. These are used in different areas and by a wide variety of users. Due to this fact, it is essential to incorporate usability in their development. Aim: Our objective is to identify the state-of-the-art in chatbot usability and applied human–computer interaction techniques, to analyze how to evaluate chatbot usability. Method: We have conducted a systematic mapping study, by searching the main scientific databases. The search retrieved 170 references and 21 articles were retained as primary studies. Results: The works were categorized according to four criteria: usability techniques, usability characteristics, research methods and type of chatbots. Conclusions: Chatbot usability is still a very incipient field of research where the published studies are mainly surveys, usability tests, and rather informal experimental studies. Hence, it becomes necessary to perform more formal experiments to measure user experience, and exploit these results to provide usability-aware design guidelines.

scholarly journals Localization Tools in General Purpose Game Engines: A Systematic Mapping Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Marcus Toftedahl
Keyword(s):  
General Purpose ◽  
The State ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Production Pipeline ◽  
Game Engines ◽  
Development Perspective

This paper addresses localization from a game development perspective by studying the state of tool support for a localization work in general purpose game engines. Using a systematic mapping study, the most commonly used game engines and their official tool libraries are studied. The results indicate that even though localization tools exists for the game engines included in the study, the visibility, availability, and functionality differ. Localization tools that are user facing, i.e., used to create localization, are scarce while many are tool facing, i.e., used to import localization kits made outside the production pipeline.

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