Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Assessing the reliability of a software system has always been an elusive target. A program may work very well for a number of years and this same program may suddenly become quit...
Background: Biological processes are carried out by coordinated modules of interacting molecules. As clustering methods demonstrate that genes with similar expression display incr...
A hybrid Expert System / Neural Network Traffic Advice system has been developed to aid traffic management in the Southern Californian telephone network. The system has been worki...
Rodney M. Goodman, Barry Ambrose, Hayes Latin, San...
Intelligibility, evolution and emulation are some of the key notions for digital information preservation. In this paper we define formally these notions on the basis of modules a...