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IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Object Identification in Legacy Code as a Grouping Problem
Maintenance is undoubtedly the most effort-consuming activity in software production whereby the entropy of legacy systems (e.g., due to redundancies, poor modularity and lack of ...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Petko Valtchev, Idrissa Konkob...
BMCBI
2008
145views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
The contrasting properties of conservation and correlated phylogeny in protein functional residue prediction
Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...
VLDB
2008
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...
SODA
2010
ACM
157views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Testing monotone high-dimensional distributions
A monotone distribution P over a (partially) ordered domain assigns higher probability to y than to x if y x in the order. We study several natural problems concerning testing pr...
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Rocco A. Servedio