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软件工程研究在实践中的影响:专利和作者调查分析

Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: A Patent and Author Survey Analysis

Zoe Kotti, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis

摘要:

关于软件工程(SE)研究的实际影响的现有工作考察了工业相关性,而不是采用研究结果,因此,结果如何实际应用的问题仍然是开放的。为了回答这个问题并调查有影响力的研究成果,我们对1975年至2017年期间在四个主要SE场所发表的4,354项SE专利进行了定量和定性分析,引用了1,690篇SE论文。此外,我们还对593篇被引和获奖论文的475位作者进行了调查,回复率为26%。总的来说,研究人员为从业者提供了各种工具,流程和方法,并改进了许多现有产品。SE实践重视寻求知识的研究,并受到各种跨学科SE领域的影响。面向从业者的出版场所似乎比面向研究人员的出版场所更有影响力,而会议中与行业相关的轨道可以增强其影响力。一些研究工作没有达到广泛的足迹,由于有限的资金资源或不利的成本效益权衡所提出的解决方案。通过专门的实证研究,可以证实需要更高的SE研究资金。一般而言,影响评估须遵守其定义。因此,学术界和工业界可以共同商定一个正式的说明,为以后关于这一专题的研究奠定共同基础。

英文摘要:

Existing work on the practical impact of software engineering (SE) research examines industrial relevance rather than adoption of study results, hence the question of how results have been practically applied remains open. To answer this and investigate the outcomes of impactful research, we performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 4,354 SE patents citing 1,690 SE papers published in four leading SE venues between 1975-2017. Moreover, we conducted a survey on 475 authors of 593 top-cited and awarded publications, achieving 26% response rate. Overall, researchers have equipped practitioners with various tools, processes, and methods, and improved many existing products. SE practice values knowledge-seeking research and is impacted by diverse cross-disciplinary SE areas. Practitioner-oriented publication venues appear more impactful than researcher-oriented ones, while industry-related tracks in conferences could enhance their impact. Some research works did not reach a wide footprint due to limited funding resources or unfavorable cost-benefit trade-off of the proposed solutions. The need for higher SE research funding could be corroborated through a dedicated empirical study. In general, the assessment of impact is subject to its definition. Therefore, academia and industry could jointly agree on a formal description to set a common ground for subsequent research on the topic.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

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