of nature, or abstract idea (collectively, a principle). The clue to the patent-eligibility of processes that do not involve substance-transformation is whether the process impleme...
This paper describes a new software platform for the interactive exploration of human performance models such as Fitts' law. The software is written in Java and provides a fl...
Design patterns are rarely used on their own. They are almost always to be found composed with each other in real applications. So it is crucial that we can reason about their comp...
Abstract—In Open Source System (OSS) development, software components are often imported and reused; for this reason we might expect that files are copied in multiple projects (...
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...