Customer-reported field failures provide valuable information for the requirements of the next release. Without a systematic approach, the requirements of the next release may not...
In the web services environment software development can involve writing both object-oriented programs and XML transformations. This can be seen in the popular Web Services archit...
As the complexity of embedded systems grows rapidly, it is common to accelerate critical tasks with hardware. Designers usually use off-the-shelf components or licensed IP cores t...
Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a serviceoriented system to meet QoS requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodolog...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...