Pii: S0950-5849(00)00124-5

Representation and optimization of software usage models with non-Markovian state transitions

Source code analysis and manipulation

The special section contains nine papers which are extended versions of papers originally published in the proceedings of the IEEE workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2001). The papers cover the spectrum of analysis and manipulation work from traditional transformation application areas concerned with optimisation through to more novel application areas such as transformatio...

Behavioural analysis of component-based systems

Hardware Engineers have shown that building systems from components has brought enormous benefits. Using components permits hardware engineers to consider systems at an abstract level, making it possible for them to build and reason about systems that would otherwise be too large and complex to understand. It also enables them to make effective reuse of existing designs. It seems reasonable to ...

Pii: S0950-5849(00)00169-5

Software reuse increases productivity, reduces costs, and improves quality. Object-oriented (OO) software has been shown to be inherently more reusable than functionally decomposed software; however, most OO software was not speci®cally designed for reuse [Software Reuse Guidelines and Methods, Plenum Press, New York, 1991]. This paper describes the analysis, in terms of quality factors related...

ViewFinder: an object browser

ViewFinder is a graphical tool for browsing in databases that provides a flexible, yet intuitive environment for exploratory searches. The design approach has been to provide maximumfunctionality and generality without sacrificing simplici/y. The constructs of ViewFinder's external model are essentially object-oriented: class and token objects, membership relationships between tokens and classe...