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EUROSYS
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
A build system breathes life into source code, as it configures and directs the construction of a software system from textual source code modules. Surprisingly, build languages a...
CSMR
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
2004
IEEE
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
IWPC
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
Architecture defines the components of a system and their dependencies. The knowledge about how the architecture is intended to be implemented is essential to keep the system str...
IWPC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
In this paper, we present an approach that examines the evolution of code stored in source control repositories. The technique identifies Change Clusters, which can help managers...