We describe COTERIE, a toolkit that provides languagelevel support for building distributed virtual environments. COTERIE is based on the distributed data-object paradigm for dist...
As people accumulate hundreds of “friends” in social media, a flat list of connections becomes unmanageable. Interfaces agnostic to social structure hinder the nuanced sharin...
Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, M...
Delivering increasingly complex software-reliant systems demands better ways to manage the long-term effects of shortterm expedients. The technical debt metaphor is gaining signif...
Nanette Brown, Yuanfang Cai, Yuepu Guo, Rick Kazma...
The benefits of virtualized IT environments, such as compute clouds, have drawn interested enterprises to migrate their applications onto new platforms to gain the advantages of ...
Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shai...
Software re-engineering is one of the solutions advocated for the problems that are encountered during maintenance. The three major phases of a re-engineering process are (i) reve...