Laura M. Castro

University of A Coruña Spain

Dr. Laura M. Castro is a professor at the University of A Coruña, Spain, where she has been lecturing for more than 15 years. Apart from being a coordinator of several undergraduate courses on software architecture and software testing, she is currently the president of the Institutional Chair for Open Science Promotion through Software (CICAS). Her most recent research interests focus on the automatic validation of distributed systems. She has supervised three Ph.D. theses and acted as principal investigator for several European projects. She is also actively involved in dissemination activities, particularly the visibility of women in STEM, as a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) Europe.

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Open-Source Horizons - Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation dives into the world of open-source research and collaboration, exploring its impact beyond software development. This book brings together a range of voices to examine the exciting potential and ongoing challenges. You can read along to explore how open-source fosters innovation, empowers individuals and ensures wider access to knowledge. Readers will encounter discussions on critical issues like public transparency or data privacy and ownership, along with the role of open-source in the new age of artificial intelligence. By examining these challenges, this text highlights remarkable opportunities for progress enabled by the open-source philosophy. This book aims, thus, to inspire and inform anyone interested in everything that surrounds this movement, from developers to designers and curious minds alike.

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Technical books focus most of the times in technical stuff, as one should expect. However, this creates the illusion that technology is somewhat free of bias, always neutral, thus fitting everyone. Reality, later on, when the product is already there, proofs us otherwise. Inclusion and representation are crucial from the design and modeling stages. Visibility of minorities or underrepresented groups is on the rise, yet so much of the way is left for us technicians to walk. In this chapter, we will analyze, from an architectural point of view, which non-functional requirements are most sensible to this and how to start the conversation about them to maximize the possibilities for success of our software products.

Part of the book: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning

Introductory Chapter: Why Usability Matters

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Part of the book: Updates on Software Usability

Introductory Chapter: Unveiling Present and Future Horizons of Open Source

By Laura M. Castro

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Part of the book: Open-Source Horizons

Laura M. Castro

Latest work with IntechOpen by Laura M. Castro

Open-Source Horizons

Books edited

Updates on Software Usability

Software Usability

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