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IWPC
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
A Simple and Effective Measure for Complex Low-Level Dependencies
The measure dep-degree is a simple indicator for structural problems and complex dependencies on code-level. We model low-level dependencies between program operations as use-def ...
Dirk Beyer, Ashgan Fararooy
JSS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Search-based refactoring for software maintenance
The high cost of software maintenance could be reduced by automatically improving the design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have constructed a so...
Mark Kent O'Keeffe, Mel Ó Cinnéide
GECCO
2005
Springer
103views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Pricing the 'free lunch' of meta-evolution
A number of recent studies introduced meta-evolutionary strategies and successfully used them for solving problems in genetic programming. While individual results indicate possib...
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Kenneth A. De Jong
SIGSOFT
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Improving program slicing with dynamic points-to data
Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for aiding program understanding. However, slices of even small programs are often too large to be generally useful. Imprecise poi...
Markus Mock, Darren C. Atkinson, Craig Chambers, S...
PASTE
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Identifying Procedural Structure in Cobol Programs
The principal control-flow abstraction mechanism in the Cobol language is the PERFORM statement. Normally, PERFORM statements are used in a straightforward manner to define para...
John Field, G. Ramalingam