Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...
Depending on the physical structuring of large distributed safety-critical real-time systems, one can distinguish federated and integrated system architectures. The DECOS architec...
Philipp Peti, Roman Obermaisser, Fulvio Tagliabo, ...
Academic research sometimes suffers from the “ivory tower” problem: some ideas that sound good in theory do not necessarily work well in practice. An example of research that ...
Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Lori Blankenship, Bruce W...
Most existing software optimization research assumes advance knowledge of the component parameters. Perfect future knowledge of fault detection is an unnecessary oversimplificati...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...