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ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Aligning development tools with the way programmers think about code changes
Software developers must modify their programs to keep up with changing requirements and designs. Often, a conceptually simple change can require numerous edits that are similar b...
Marat Boshernitsan, Susan L. Graham, Marti A. Hear...
FM
2006
Springer
161views Formal Methods» more  FM 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Changing Programs Correctly: Refactoring with Specifications
Refactorings change the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior. For non-trivial refactorings, the preservation of external behavior depends on semantic p...
Fabian Bannwart, Peter Müller
CORR
2002
Springer
93views Education» more  CORR 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
Modeling Complex Domains of Actions and Change
This paper studies the problem of modeling complex domains of actions and change within highlevel action description languages. We investigate two main issues of concern: (a) can ...
Antonis C. Kakas, Loizos Michael
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Diverging patterns: discovering significant frequency change dissimilarities in large databases
In this paper, we present a framework for mining diverging patterns, a new type of contrast patterns whose frequency changes significantly differently in two data sets, e.g., it c...
Aijun An, Qian Wan, Jiashu Zhao, Xiangji Huang