This paper presents the results of the first study of the uniqueness of source code. We define the uniqueness of a unit of source code with respect to the entire body of written s...
The COCOMO II model was created to meet the need for a cost model that accounted for future software development practices. This resulted in the formulation of three submodels for...
Bradford Clark, Sunita Devnani-Chulani, Barry W. B...
Domain analysis involves not only looking at standard requirements documents (e.g., use case specifications) but also at customer information packs, market analyses, etc. Looking ...
Many real processes are composed of a n-fold repetition of some simpler process. If the whole process can be modelled with a neural network, we present a method to derive a model ...
Features identify core characteristics of software in order to produce families of programs. Through configuration, different variants of a program can be composed. Our approach...