Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
Recently, there is a growing interest in the research community to use tamper-resistant processors for software copy protection. Many of these tamper-resistant systems rely on a s...
Weidong Shi, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Chenghuai Lu, Tao ...
The growing size and complexity of systems has revealed many shortcomings of existing software engineering practices, for example, lack of scalability. This in turn raised interes...
There is still no standardization of software measures and metrics extraction tools have to be updated frequently to handle the changes. A possible solution is represented by usin...
Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, T...