Legacy systems are usually critical to the business in which they operate, but the costs of running them are often not justifiable. Determining whether such systems are worth keep...
: The evolution of software systems often produces incompatibilities with existing data and applications. To prevent incompatibilities, changes have to be wellplanned, and develope...
The need for high performance computing applications for computational science and engineering projects is growing rapidly, yet there have been few detailed studies of the softwar...
Jeffrey C. Carver, Richard P. Kendall, Susan E. Sq...
This paper proposes a coprocessor architecture to speed up hardware evolution. It is designed to be implemented in an FPGA with an integrated microprocessor core. The coprocessor r...
Tillmann Schmitz, Steffen G. Hohmann, Karlheinz Me...
We report on the birth and evolution of Lua and discuss how it moved from a simple configuration language to a versatile, widely used language that supports extensible semantics, ...
Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo...