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WCRE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
The understanding of the structure of a software system can be improved by analyzing the system’s evolution during development. Visualizations of software history that provide o...
CSMR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
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...
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development f...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
2003
IEEE
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...