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ECIS
2003
14 years 7 days ago
2003
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...
IEE
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
CSMR
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2002
IEEE
It is shown how software metrics and architectural patterns can be used for the management of software evolution. In the presented architecture-centric software evolutionmethod th...
IWPSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present a method to detect and visualize evolution patterns in C++ source code. Our method consists of three steps. First, we extract an annotated syntax tree (AST) from each v...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
More than 90% of the cost of software is due to maintenance and evolution. Understanding the evolution of large software systems is a complex problem, which requires the use of va...