We present an analysis of the evolution of a Web application project developed with object-
oriented technology and an agile process. During the development we systematically …

Large-scale networks arise in many applications. It is often of interest to be able to identify
the most important nodes of a network or to ascertain the ease of traveling between nodes …

Many object‐oriented metrics have been proposed in the literature to measure various
structural properties of object‐oriented software. Furthermore, many centrality measures …

Context There are several empirical principles related to the distribution of faults in a
software system (eg the Pareto principle) widely applied in practice and thoroughly studied …

This paper presents a case study of a large software system, Netbeans 6.0, made of
independent subsystems, which are analyzed as complex software networks. Starting from …

A “hero” project is one where 80% or more of the contributions are made by the 20% of the
developers. Those developers are called “hero” developers. In the literature, heroes projects …

We present a study of 600 Java software networks with the aim of characterizing the
relationship among their defectiveness and community metrics. We analyze the community …

This paper develops a novel learning-based method for detecting stereo saliency in
stereopair images. The disparity maps computed from stereopair images provide an …

Refactoring is an activity which, in theory, should have minimal impact on the overall
structure of a system. That said, certain refactorings change the coupling profile of a system …

The complexity management of software code has become one of the major problems in
software development industry. With growing complexity the maintenance effort of code …