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 ...
— We present techniques for analyzing the source code of distributed Java applications, and building finite models of their behaviour. The models are labelled transition systems...
This paper describes a study performed in an industrial setting that attempts to build predictive models to identify parts of a Java system with a high probability of fault. The s...
This paper focuses on an emerging model for software development in higher education: community source. Community source seeks to blend aspects of both open source and traditional...
Large repositories of source code create new challenges and opportunities for statistical machine learning. Here we first develop Sourcerer, an infrastructure for the automated c...
Erik Linstead, Paul Rigor, Sushil Krishna Bajracha...