High-level languages are growing in popularity. However, decades of C software development have produced large libraries of fast, timetested, meritorious code that are impractical...
Tristan Ravitch, Steve Jackson, Eric Aderhold, Ben...
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper presents the results of a formative observational study of seven professio...
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, Georg...
Background: The Gene Ontology has become an extremely useful tool for the analysis of genomic data and structuring of biological knowledge. Several excellent software tools for na...
Rachel S. G. Sealfon, Matthew A. Hibbs, Curtis Hut...
In today’s technical world (e.g., in the automotive industry), more and more purely mechanical components get replaced by electro-mechanical ones. Thus the size and complexity o...
Raimund Kirner, Roland Lang, Gerald Freiberger, Pe...
Abstract. Iterative compilation is an efficient approach to optimize programs on rapidly evolving hardware, but it is still only scarcely used in practice due to a necessity to gat...