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The problem of discovering individual human oriented concepts and assigning them to their
implementation-oriented counterparts for a given program is the concept assignment …

A program is defined to be noninterferent if its outputs cannot be influenced by inputs at a
higher security level than their own. Various researchers have demonstrated how this …

Teach reverse engineering, program understanding, and software analysis in computer
science, computer engineering, and software engineering curricula. Investigate …

A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its
first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investment and …

The paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisition from existing
software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a method …

A recent industry survey (Townhidnejad and Hilburn, 2002) has reported that more than fifty
percent of a software project's budget is spent on activities related to improving software …

Software engineering research has focused primarily on software construction, neglecting
software maintenance and evolution. Observed is a shift in research from synthesis to …

Viruses, worms, trojan horses and crackers all exist and threaten the security of our
computer systems. Often, we are aware of an intrusion only after it has occured. On some …

Code clones are similar program structures recurring in variant forms in software system (s).
Several techniques have been proposed to detect similar code fragments in software, so …