Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Felizardo, Katia Romero
• Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi
• MacDonell, Stephen G.
• Maldonado, José Carlos

Titel

A visual analysis approach to update systematic reviews

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2014, p.1-10

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Context: In order to preserve the value of Systematic Reviews (SRs), they should be frequently updated considering new evidence that has been produced since the completion of the previous version of the reviews. However, the update of an SR is a time consuming, manual task. Thus, many SRs have not been updated as they should be and, therefore, they are currently outdated. Objective: The main contribution of this paper is to support the update of SRs. Method: We propose USR-VTM, an approach based on Visual Text Mining (VTM) techniques, to support selection of new evidence in the form of primary studies. We then present a tool, named Revis, which supports our approach. Finally, we evaluate our approach through a comparison of outcomes achieved using USR-VTM versus the traditional (manual) approach. Results: Our results show that USR-VTM increases the number of studies correctly included compared to the traditional approach. Conclusions: USR-VTM effectively supports the update of SRs.