It is well known that software maintenance and evolution are expensive activities, both in terms of invested time and money. Reverse engineering activities support the obtainment ...
During the development of system requirements, software system specifications are often inconsistent. Inconsistencies may arise for different reasons, for example, when multiple...
Odinaldo Rodrigues, Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Aless...
Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
Abstract Population-based meta-heuristics are algorithms that can obtain very good results for complex continuous optimization problems in a reduced amount of time. These search al...
Amilkar Puris, Rafael Bello, Daniel Molina, Franci...
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...