Donald Cowan

2.8k citations
150 papers · 1.4k indexed · h-index 18

Donald Cowan

130 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Donald Cowan
Comparison fields: 5 of 109
  • Software 346
  • Information Systems 767
  • Artificial Intelligence 826
  • Management Information Systems 164
  • Computer Networks and Communications 345
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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Donald Cowan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20241
2 20233
3 202217
4 20219
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A Catalog of Bad Agile Smells for Agility Assessment.
20191
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A context-aware machine learning-based approach
20189
8
Towards using task similarity to recommend Stack Overflow posts.
20181
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Mining Reuse Processes.
20141
10 200930
11 200810
12 20070
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Automating the analysis of design component contracts: Research Articles
20061
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A service-oriented monitoring registry
20038
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Correct Composition of Design Components
19993
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A Federated Database for Hypermedia Development for the WWW.
19961
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ADVcharts: a graphical specification for abstract data views
19932
18
Programming Environments for End-Users
19926
19
Rita—an editor and user interface for manipulating structured documents
199116
20
Some Thoughts on the Construction of Programs - A Data-Directed Approach.
19781

About Donald Cowan

Donald Cowan is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Management Information Systems, having authored 150 papers that have together received 1.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (47 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (39 papers), Software Engineering Research (22 papers), Business Process Modeling and Analysis (19 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (12 papers), Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques (10 papers), Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (9 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (346 citations), Information Systems (767 citations) and Artificial Intelligence (826 citations). Donald Cowan has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, Brazil and United States. Frequent co-authors include Marcílio Mendonça, Paulo Alencar, Carlos Lucena, Moisés Castelo Branco, Paulo S. C. Alencar, Toacy Oliveira, Colin H. West, P. Zafiropulo, Daniël Brand and H. Rudin. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Communications of the ACM and Expert Systems with Applications.

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