—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Abstract. Software engineering uses UML diagrams as a standard technique for specification and development of software. Various UML diagrams are used for specification of different...
Abstract. In this paper, we report on the development of a methodology for the evolution of software towards new architectures. In our approach, we represent source code as graphs....
Rui Correia, Carlos M. P. Matos, Reiko Heckel, Moh...
Completing software maintenance and evolution tasks for today’s large, complex software systems can be difficult, often requiring considerable time to understand the system well...
Background: Transposable elements are abundant in eukaryotic genomes and it is believed that they have a significant impact on the evolution of gene and chromosome structure. Whil...