The problem of managing the evolution of complex and large software systems is well known. Evolution implies reuse and modification of existing software artifacts, and this means t...
—Free and open source software (FOSS) is often distributed in binary packages, sometimes part of GNU/Linux operating system distributions, or part of products distributed/sold to...
—There are numerous studies that examine whether or not cloned code is harmful to software systems. Yet, few of them study which characteristics of cloned code in particular lead...
Gehan M. K. Selim, Liliane Barbour, Weiyi Shang, B...
Software architecture is receiving increasingly attention as a critical design level for software systems. As software architecture design resources (in the form of architectural ...
Component-based software development has proven effective for systems implementation in well-understood application domains, but is still insufficient for the creation of reusable...