Practitioner’s Knowledge Representation: A Pathway to Improve Software Effort Estimation

Emilia Mendes is a Professor of Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) and has been a full-time academic for the past 14 years, making significant research and practical contributions to her fields of research - empirical Web/software engineering, measurement and metrics. Her findings provide solutions to industry, helping to improve development processes and products. Her Springer book on Web engineering in 2006 was the first to provide industry and academia with theory as well as case studies on numerous aspects related to Web development and measurement. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the ICT industry for ten years as a programmer, business analyst and project manager.