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EOR
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Searching for multiobjective preventive maintenance schedules: Combining preferences with evolutionary algorithms
Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centers or railroad yards must contend with scheduling preventive maintenance tasks to ensure critical equipment remains ...
Gang Quan, Garrison W. Greenwood, Donglin Liu, Xia...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 24 days ago
The Computational Complexity of Agent Design Problems
This paper investigates the computational complexity of a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems: given an environment together with a specification of some task, can we const...
Michael Wooldridge
CSMR
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Documenting Maintenance Tasks Using Maintenance Patterns
A common problem in software maintenance is the lack of documentation required for carrying out the maintenance tasks. Both expected and unexpected maintenance tasks use and produ...
Imed Hammouda, Maarit Harsu
AOSD
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they often wa...
David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L...
ICSM
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Analysis of Programs with Exception-Handling Constructs
Analysis techniques, such as control-flow, data-flow, and control-dependence, are used for a variety of maintenance tasks, including regression testing, dynamic execution profilin...
Saurabh Sinha, Mary Jean Harrold
WISE
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Recommending Improvements to Web Applications Using Quality-Driven Heuristic Search
Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. S...
Stéphane Vaucher, Samuel Boclinville, Houar...
APSEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assessing and Estimating Corrective, Enhancive, and Reductive Maintenance Tasks: A Controlled Experiment
— This paper describes a controlled experiment of student programmers performing maintenance tasks on a C++ program. The goal of the study is to assess the maintenance size, effo...
Vu Nguyen, Barry W. Boehm, Phongphan Danphitsanuph...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Eliciting design requirements for maintenance-oriented IDEs: a detailed study of corrective and perfective maintenance tasks
Recently, several innovative tools have found their way into mainstream use in modern development environments. However, most of these tools have focused on creating and modifying...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Htet Htet Aung, Brad A. Myers