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CD
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Availability in Large, Distributed Component-Based Systems Via Redeployment
In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall av...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nenad Medvidovic
CD
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Decentralized Redeployment Algorithm for Improving the Availability of Distributed Systems
In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall a...
Sam Malek, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad Medvidovic
CAISE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Semiotic Approach to UML models
In this paper we are trying to clarify, with the aid of some semiotic notions, the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis model” and “design model” in s...
Gonzalo Génova, María Cruz Valiente,...
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Making Self-Adaptation an Engineering Reality
In this paper, we envision a world where a software engineer could take an existing software system, specify, for a set of properties of interest, an objective, conditions for chan...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl
VISSOFT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive Exploration of Semantic Clusters
Using visualization and exploration tools can be of great use for the understanding of a software system when only its source code is available. However, understanding a large sof...
Mircea Lungu, Adrian Kuhn, Tudor Gîrba, Mich...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
System Evolution Tracking through Execution Trace Analysis
Software evolution analysis is concerned with analysis of artifacts produced during a software systems life-cycle. Execution traces produced from instrumented code reflect a syst...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Harald Gall, ...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Clustering Software Artifacts Based on Frequent Common Changes
Changes of software systems are less expensive and less error-prone if they affect only one subsystem. Thus, clusters of artifacts that are frequently changed together are subsyst...
Dirk Beyer, Andreas Noack
IWPC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Concise and Consistent Naming
Approximately 70% of the source code of a software system consists of identifiers. Hence, the names chosen as identifiers are of paramount importance for the readability of comp...
Florian Deißenböck, Markus Pizka
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
ICSM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Employing Use-Cases and Dynamic Analysis to Comprehend Mozilla
This paper presents an approach for comprehending large software systems using views that are created by subjecting the software systems to dynamic analysis under various use-case...
Maher Salah, Spiros Mancoridis, Giuliano Antoniol,...