This paper presents the results of the first study of the uniqueness of source code. We define the uniqueness of a unit of source code with respect to the entire body of written s...
According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial developmen...
This paper presents a flexible way in which a deisgn model extracted from Java programs can remain unified with the source code. Each entity declaration and reference in the Java ...
In this paper, we propose a revisitation of the topic of unique decodability and of some fundamental theorems of lossless coding. It is widely believed that, for any discrete sourc...
We consider the distributed compression of two (binary memoryless) correlated sources and propose a unique codec that can reach any point in the Slepian-Wolf region. In a previous...