Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelko...
Detecting code clones has many software engineering applications. Existing approaches either do not scale to large code bases or are not robust against minor code modifications. I...
Many organisations are migrating towards object-oriented technology. However, owing to the business value of legacy software, new object-oriented development has to be weighed aga...
Aniello Cimitile, Andrea De Lucia, Giuseppe A. Di ...
Abstract. In this paper we present a study of the application of Evolutionary Computation methods to the optimisation of the start-up of a combined cycle power plant. We propose a ...
Ilaria Bertini, Matteo De Felice, Fabio Moretti, S...
This paper proposes a novel methodology tailored to design embedded systems, taking into account the emerging market needs, such as hw/sw partitioning, object-oriented specificati...
William Fornaciari, P. Micheli, Fabio Salice, L. Z...