Abstract-When making choices in software projects, engineers and other stakeholders engage in decision making that involves uncertain future outcomes. The concept of 'intertemporal choice' describes choices between outcomes at different times in the future. Short-sighted decisions with far-reaching effects are a long-standing cause of concern in the software profession.Common models to support decisions in software projects use concepts such as expected utility and discount factors to quantify future value and enable trade-off decisions. However, a growing body of behavioral research shows that these normative models do not adequately describe how people actually make choices.Our objective is to understand how developers and stakeholders actually take trade-off decisions during software projects that involve current and future benefits, and to identify the human and cooperative factors that influence them. This requires empirical research on decision making in SE with a focus on trade-offs across time. To support such research, this paper reports on a systematic literature review that aimed to identify whether the intersection of these concepts has been acknowledged and addressed. We discuss the assumptions about decision makers that underpin existing research and analyze how the role of time has been characterized in the study of decision making in SE.Based on this review, the paper begins to develop principles for a descriptive framework to characterize intertemporal choices in empirical and behavioral software engineering research.
When making choices in software projects, engineers and other stakeholders engage in decision making that involves uncertain future outcomes. Research in psychology, behavioral economics and neuroscience has questioned many of the classical assumptions of how such decisions are made.This literature review aims to characterize the assumptions that underpin the study of these decisions in Software Engineering. We identify empirical research on this subject and analyze how the role of time has been characterized in the study of decision making in SE.The literature review aims to support the development of descriptive frameworks for empirical studies of intertemporal decision making in practice.
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The topology and constitution of network infrastructure shapes a crucial dimension of our understanding of information and sociotechnical systems in a networked environment. Infrastructure decides how and what information can be transmitted at a technical as well as a social level. Significant research programs, along with various artistic and pedagogical interventions, have sought to illuminate this dimension. NodeRunner is an embodied reflection on the roles and knowledges required to build and maintain an emerging form of infrastructure deployment: mesh networking. As mesh networking concerns new technologies and ways of organizing communities around shared infrastructure, it requires heightened examination from the information research and iSchool community. The session will begin with a 30 minute discussion designed to introduce mesh networking concepts, provoking discussion on how mesh networks have been used and how they challenge existing economic relations in infrastructure. This will lead into 60-90 minutes of 'play-time' where we will deploy an embodied game at a suitable site.
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