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ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
15 years 4 months ago
An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Ya...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Ksplice: automatic rebootless kernel updates
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
Jeff Arnold, M. Frans Kaashoek
MSR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Analysis of signature change patterns
Software continually changes due to performance improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and adaptation to a changing operational environment. Common changes include modificatio...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jennifer Beva...
CL
2006
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
Co-evolving code and design with intensional views: A case study
Intensional views and relations have been proposed as a way of actively documenting high-level structural regularities in the source code of a software system. By checking conform...
Kim Mens, Andy Kellens, Frédéric Plu...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Reducing TCB complexity for security-sensitive applications: three case studies
The large size and high complexity of securitysensitive applications and systems software is a primary cause for their poor testability and high vulnerability. One approach to all...
Lenin Singaravelu, Calton Pu, Hermann Härtig,...