Building cost estimation models is often considered a search problem in which the solver should return an optimal solution satisfying an objective function. This solution also nee...
In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a ...
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Reducing the arithmetic precision of a computation has real performance implications, including increased speed, decreased power consumption, and a smaller memory footprint. For s...
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Crosscutting concerns are software system features whose implementation is spread across many modules as tangled and scattered code. Identifying such code helps developers to chan...
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...
Modern software is often constructed using "spiral specification"; i.e. the specification is a dynamic document that is altered by experience with the current version of...