The importance of re-usable Intellectual Properties (IPs) cores is increasing due to the growing complexity of today's system-on-chip and the need for rapid prototyping. In th...
Our goal is to embed free-form constraints into a graphical model. With such constraints a graphic can maintain its visual integrity--and break rules tastefully--while being manip...
Tom Ngo, Doug Cutrell, Jenny Dana, Bruce Randall D...
Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural “bad smells,”...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
The presence of vulnerable statements in the source code is a crucial problem for maintainers: properly monitoring and, if necessary, removing them is highly desirable to ensure h...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversa...
Understanding and maintaining legacy COBOL systems are still a challenging task for both academic research and industry practice. With the development of aspect-oriented software ...
Jianjun Pu, Zhuopeng Zhang, Jian Kang, Yang Xu, Ho...