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1991

Mohsin, Jimmy, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Lu, Paul, Chan, Enoch, Szafron, Duane, Smith, Carol, Wong, Pok Sze

Technical report TR91-17. Workstation environments have been in use for more than a decade now. Although a network of workstations together represents a large amount of aggregate computing power, single users often cannot utilize these resources for their applications. Enterprise is a...

1996

McPhee, Kent

Technical report TR96-26. Software design methods share many characteristics with design methods in other fields. All these methods are the progeny of philosophies of design that are in turn influenced by more general philosophic movements. This essay begins with the influence of philosophies of...

2003

Xing, Zhenchang, Stroulia, Eleni

Technical report TR03-20. Understanding the software architecture of a system and the process by which it has evolved to its current state is an important task that software developers are often faced with. It becomes relevant when one needs to assess a system for the purpose of adopting it in a...

2006

Stroulia, Eleni, Tansey, Brendan

Technical report TR06-20. Economic models are critical for business success because they can be used to determine the costs and benefits associated with making a business decision. As the economy moves away from traditional goods and towards delivering services, the need for an accurate economic...

2007

Stroulia, Eleni

Technical report TR07-09. The objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between the engineering of Service-Oriented Applications and some strategic and economic concerns of the organizations that (consider to) adopt this architecture style for the development of their software...

2011

Gergel, Barry, Stroulia, Eleni, Smit, Michael, Hoover, H. James

Technical report TR11-06. Maintainability is a desirable property of software, and a variety of metrics have been proposed for measuring it, all based on different notions of complexity. Although these metrics are useful, complexity is only one factor influencing maintainability. Practical...

Fall 2012

Delfani, Parisa

Inexpensive yet versatile limited-capability processors enable computing to be embedded in many kinds of devices and situations. Most applications are simple purpose-programmed reactive systems that interact with the environment through sensors and actuators. Because the processors are limited...

2013

Hindle, Abram, Wang, Jiemin, Nascimento, Mario A., Jiang, Feng

The open source development community consists of both paid and volunteer developers as well as new and experienced users. Previous work has applied social network analysis (SNA) to open source communities and has demonstrated value in expertise discovery and triaging. One problem with applying...

Fall 2013

Li, Kuwen

This dissertation focuses on applying Computational Intelligence, a consortium of the technologies of fuzzy sets, neurocomputing and evolutionary computing, to the design and analysis of fuzzy rule-based systems (FRBS). We discuss two methods to construct FRBS, where the crux of the method is to...

2016

Campbell, J.C., Santos, E.A., Hindle, Abram

Organizations like Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple are flooded with thousands of automated crash reports per day. Although crash reports contain valuable information for debugging, there are often too many for developers to examine individually. Therefore, in industry, crash reports are often...