: The objective of this paper is to identify those factors, which are critical to the success of a maintenance operation in general and to apply them to a particular maintenance pr...
We study the convergence rates of neighbor-joining and several new phylogenetic reconstruction methods on families of trees of bounded diameter. Our study presents theoretically ob...
Luay Nakhleh, Usman Roshan, Katherine St. John, Je...
Defect density and defect prediction are essential for efficient resource allocation in software evolution. In an empirical study we applied data mining techniques for value seri...
I present a new estimation-of-distribution approach to program evolution where distributions are not estimated over the entire space of programs. Rather, a novel representationbui...
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...