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FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Family of Distributed Deadlock Avoidance Protocols and Their Reachable State Spaces
Abstract. We study resource management in distributed systems. Incorrect handling of resources may lead to deadlocks, missed deadlines, priority inversions, and other forms of inco...
César Sánchez, Henny B. Sipma, Zohar...
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Finding Environment Guarantees
Abstract. When model checking a software component, a model of the environment in which that component is supposed to run is constructed. One of the major threats to the validity o...
Marsha Chechik, Mihaela Gheorghiu, Arie Gurfinkel
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Approach to Software Evolution Based on Semantic Change
The analysis of the evolution of software systems is a useful source of information for a variety of activities, such as reverse engineering, maintenance, and predicting the future...
Romain Robbes, Michele Lanza, Mircea Lungu
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
EQ-Mine: Predicting Short-Term Defects for Software Evolution
We use 63 features extracted from sources such as versioning and issue tracking systems to predict defects in short time frames of two months. Our multivariate approach covers aspe...
Jacek Ratzinger, Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Maintaining Consistency in Layered Architectures of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Abstract. In this paper we present a layered architecture for modeling workflows in Mobile Ad-Hoc NETworks (manets) using algebraic higher order nets (aho nets). manets are networ...
Julia Padberg, Kathrin Hoffmann, Hartmut Ehrig, To...
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Contract-Driven Development
Although unit tests are recognized as an important tool in software development, programmers prefer to write code, rather than unit tests. Despite the emergence of tools like JUni...
Bertrand Meyer
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Measuring and Characterizing Crosscutting in Aspect-Based Programs: Basic Metrics and Case Studies
Aspects are defined as well-modularized crosscutting concerns. Despite being a core tenet of Aspect Oriented Programming, little research has been done in characterizing and measur...
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Sven Apel
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Testing Scenario-Based Models
The play-in/play-out approach suggests a new paradigm for system development using scenario-based requirements. It allows the user to develop a high level scenario-based model of t...
Hillel Kugler, Michael J. Stern, E. Jane Albert Hu...
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Activity-Driven Synthesis of State Machines
The synthesis of object behaviour from scenarios is a well-known and important issue in the transition from system analysis to system design. We describe a model transformation pro...
Rolf Hennicker, Alexander Knapp