Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Along with the blossom of open source projects comes the convenience for software plagiarism. A company, if less self-disciplined, may be tempted to plagiarize some open source pr...
Chao Liu 0001, Chen Chen, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...
—In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code, and it is error-prone and...
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. H...