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ICSM
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
In examining software maintenance processes for improvement opportunities, an obvious choice is information flow. Obtaining accurate, up-to-date, and useful information about a sy...
APSEC
2001
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2001
IEEE
Accelerating the learning curve of software maintainers working on systems with which they have little familiarity motivated this study. A working hypothesis was that automated me...
AVI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
SCAM
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Software maintenance, program analysis and transformation tools almost always rely on static source code analysis as the first and fundamental step to gather information. In the ...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpos...