Although numbers of software pattern catalogues and languages have been published, little is known about quality of patterns, quality by patterns and quality aspects of pattern ac...
All programmers should understand the concept of program families and know the techniques for constructing them. This paper describes a case study that can be used to introduce st...
The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in Extreme Programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method...
Redundant code obstructs program understanding and contributes to high maintenance costs. While most experts agree on that, opinions on how serious the problem of redundancies rea...
This paper presents a summary of the issues discussed during the one day workshop on "Support Vector Machines (SVM) Theory and Applications" organized as part of the Adv...