The Multi-agent Systems (MASs) paradigm continues to consolidate itself as a new branch of software engineering. Traditional software engineering strongly recommends to apply metr...
Software systems of today are characterized by the increasing size, complexity, distribution and heterogeneity. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requir...
We will discuss here the theoretical, social, technological and practical issues related to quality aspects of software patterns including security and safety aspects. The worksho...
Hironori Washizaki, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Eduardo B. ...
—Recent research results have shown more benefits of the management of code clones, rather than detecting and removing them. However, existing management approaches for code clo...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...