Predicting stability in object-oriented (OO) software, i.e., the ease with which a software item evolves while preserving its design, is a key feature for software maintenance. In...
Security is a very important issue in information processing, especially in open network environments like the Internet. The Common Criteria (CC) is the standard requirements cata...
Monika Vetterling, Guido Wimmel, Alexander K. Wi&s...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...
Sensor networks have the potential to empower domain experts from a wide range of fields. However, presently they are notoriously difficult for these domain experts to program, ...
Many opportunities for easy, big-win, program optimizations are missed by compilers. This is especially true in highly layered Java applications. Often at the heart of these misse...
Guoqing Xu, Nick Mitchell, Matthew Arnold, Atanas ...