This paper summarizes the main achievements of a research whose main goal was to investigate the current state-of-art in the field of requirements engineering for COTS-based system...
The notion of refactoring —transforming the sourcecode of an object-oriented program without changing its external behaviour — has been studied intensively within the last dec...
Serge Demeyer, Filip Van Rysselberghe, Tudor G&ici...
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
In order to accommodate the spectrum of configuration options currently required for competitive system infrastructures, many systems leverage heavy usage of C preprocessor contro...
Local genetic algorithms have been designed with the aim of providing effective intensification. One of their most outstanding features is that they may help classical local searc...