Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu
Software product lines gain momentum in research and industry. duct-line approaches use features as a central abstraction mechanism. Feature-oriented software development aims at ...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Functional Size Measures are often used for effort estimation. However, these measures do not take into account the amount and complexity of elaboration required, concentrating in...
This paper introduces a function that increases the amount of neutrality (inactive code in Genetic Programming) for the Artificial Ant Problem. The objective of this approach is t...