We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
A feature represents a functional requirement fulfilled by a system. Since many maintenance tasks are expressed in terms of features, it is important to establish the corresponden...
Marcus Denker, Jorge Ressia, Orla Greevy, Oscar Ni...
Abstract. The problem of reliably transmitting a real-valued random vector through a digital noisy channel is relevant for the design of distributed estimation and control techniqu...
Abstract. The idea of component-based software engineering was proposed more that 40 years ago, yet only few robotics software frameworks follow these ideas. The main problem with ...
Many dynamic programming language features, such as implicit declaration, reflection, and code generation, make it difficult to verify the existence of identifiers through standar...