When it is impractical to rigorously assess all parts of complex systems, test engineers use defect detectors to focus their limited resources. In this article, we define some pr...
Tim Menzies, Justin S. Di Stefano, Kareem Ammar, K...
Abstract Architectural patterns are often combined with other, relevant architectural patterns during software architecture design. However, combining patterns effectively remains ...
Complex systems exhibit emergent patterns of behavior at different levels of organization. Powerful network analysis methods, developed in physics and social sciences, have been s...
Andre Nash, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Premkuma...
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
In this paper we describe PADUA, a protocol designed to enable agents to debate an issue drawing arguments not from a knowledge base of facts, rules and priorities but directly fro...
Maya Wardeh, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Frans Coene...