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...
Scientists today conduct new research via software-based experimentation and validation in a host of disciplines, including materials science, life sciences, astronomy, and physic...
David Woollard, Chris Mattmann, Daniel Popescu, Ne...
Design patterns are typically defined informally, albeit in a standard format, and have to be programmed by the software designer into each new application. Thus although patterns ...
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Increasing reuse opportunities is a well-known problem for software designers as well as for hardware designers. Nonetheless, current software and hardware engineering practices h...
Program componentization has been proved to be an effective way to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of reusing, maintaining, and understanding existing software systems. ...