Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
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...
When performing a program evolution task, developers typically spend a significant amount of effort investigating and re-investigating source code. To reduce this effort, we prop...
Abstract. Software must be constantly adapted to changing requirehe time scale, abstraction level and granularity of adaptations may vary from short-term, fine-grained adaptation t...
—The rapid growth of media content distribution on the Internet in the past few years has brought with it commensurate increases in the costs of distributing that content. Can th...