Modifiability is an important quality for software systems, because a large part of the costs associated with these systems is spent on modifications. The effort, and therefore co...
Nico H. Lassing, PerOlof Bengtsson, Hans van Vliet...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
When specifying pointcuts, i.e. join point selections, in AspectOriented Software Development, developers have in different situations different conceptual models in mind. Aspect-...
The paper focuses on investigating the combined use of semantic and structural information of programs to support the comprehension tasks involved in the maintenance and reenginee...
Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...