In this study, we empirically explore how task performance and domain-specific self-efficacy influence the perceived ease of use (PEU) of object-oriented techniques. We hypothesiz...
Undergraduates are usually introduced to synchronization in operating systems through a discussion of classical problems such as reader-writer or producers-consumers. The traditio...
The shapes of forests of inheritance trees can affect the amount of code reuse in an object-oriented system. Designers can benefit from knowing how structuring decisions affect r...
Wepresent a model based onan expert-systemapproach for the scavenging of reusable componentsfrom exis:ing software systems. We also describe a toolset called Code Miner that imple...
Abstract. To analyse various properties of the search process of genetic programming it is useful to quantify the distance between two individuals. Using operator-based distance me...
Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson, Giancarlo Ma...