A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modificatio...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Umberto Bondi, E...
The implementation of embedded networked appliances requires a mix of processor cores and HW accelerators on a single chip. When designing such complex and heterogeneous SoCs, the...
Geert Vanmeerbeeck, Patrick Schaumont, Serge Verna...
This paper discusses the simulation of vehicle kinematics with SimVis3D and the Newton Game Dynamics Engine. As running example a Pioneer1 like robot is used. First its differenti...
While many uses of mined software engineering data are automatic in nature, some techniques and studies either require, or can be improved, by manual methods. Unfortunately, manua...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Foyzur Rahman, Ab...