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ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Splitting the Organization and Integrating the Code: Conway's Law Revisited
It is widely acknowledged that coordination of large scale software development is an extremely difficult and persistent problem. Since the structure of the code mirrors the struc...
James D. Herbsleb, Rebecca E. Grinter
CAAN
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Vertex Pursuit Games in Stochastic Network Models
Abstract. Random graphs with given expected degrees G(w) were introduced by Chung and Lu so as to extend the theory of classical G(n, p) random graphs to include random power law g...
Anthony Bonato, Pawel Pralat, Changping Wang
IM
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Pursuit-Evasion in Models of Complex Networks
Vertex pursuit games, such as the game of Cops and Robbers, are a simplified model for network security. In these games, cops try to capture a robber loose on the vertices of the ...
Anthony Bonato, Pawel Pralat, Changping Wang
AGILEDC
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
An Initial Exploration of the Relationship Between Pair Programming and Brooks' Law
Through his law, "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later," Brooks asserts that the assimilation, training, and intercommunication costs of adding new ...
Laurie A. Williams, Anuja Shukla, Annie I. Ant&oac...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal social laws
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
Thomas Ågotnes, Michael Wooldridge