The value of sharing scientific research data is widely appreciated, but factors that hinder or prompt the reuse of data remain poorly understood. Using the Theory of Reasoned Action, we test the relationship between the beliefs and attitudes of scientists towards data reuse, and their self-reported data reuse behaviour. To do so, we used existing responses to selected questions from a worldwid...

The fact that instructions in programs often produce repetitive results has motivated researchers to explore various alternatives to exploit this value locality, such as value prediction and value reuse. Value prediction improves the available Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) by allowing dependent instructions to be executed speculatively after predicting the values of their operands. Value ...

Design for Reuse: Designing and building components to be reusable is a key area in software reuse research. Practitioners and researchers need to address the problem of how to build reusable components. We will study design principles that can be applied to make components reusable. These design principles are language and domain independent. With an empirical study we will identify the most c...

Whereas most object-oriented technologies traditionally achieve reuse in a bottom-up fashion, the research areas of architectures and domain analysis advocate a top-down approach to achieve systematic reuse. Practice shows that a combination of both is often desired or needed. The reuse contracts model can provide such a combination and can make the connection between object technology, archite...

Total Reuse Management (TRM) is a new concept currently being promoted by the NASA Langley Software Engineering and Ada Lab (SEAL). It uses concepts similar to those promoted in Total Quality Management (TQM). Both technical and management personnel are continually encouraged to think in terms of reuse. Reuse is not something that is aimed for after a product is completed, but rather it is buil...

software reuse, costbenefit analysis, decision support The field of software reuse is attracting increasing attention from academics and practitioners who recognize the economies to be gained from reducing duplication of software development effort. However, development for reuse requires additional costs that are difficult to justify under a single-project management view. Since reuse benefits...

Data dependencies between instructions greatly impede instruction-level parallelism. Recently two hardware techniques – Value Prediction and Value Reuse – have been proposed to overcome the limits imposed by data dependencies. We introduce a new hardware scheme for exploiting speculative value reuse by using value prediction. We propose a new microarchitecture which uses value prediction to pro...

Building software systems with reusable components brings many advantages. If the reuse concept is utilized on several levels of a system development, the development becomes more efficient, the reliability of the products is enhanced, and the maintenance requirement is significantly reduced. The levels of reuse are spread out from the reuse of source code and common libraries, through the reus...

Reuse has been gaining ever increasing focus in all stages of system development process as the prospects of leveraging prior investments to save costs, shorten delivery schedule, and possibly improve product quality are appealing to system developers. However, the concept reuse is often poorly understood and the practice has not been as effective, particularly in systems engineering. This pape...

Text reuse is a common way to transfer historical texts. It refers to the repetition of text in a new context and ranges from nearverbatim (literal) and para-phrasal reuse to completely non-literal reuse (e.g., allusions or translations). To improve the detection of reuse in historical texts, we need to better understand its characteristics. In this work, we investigate the relationship between...