This paper explores and describes the state of the art for what concerns the model-driven
approaches proposed in the literature to support reverse engineering. We conducted a …

Many organizations depend on software systems to accomplish their daily tasks, but these
systems need to be maintained and evolved to cope with various changes and …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications working on TinyOS operating system
is widely used in various areas. However, the requirement of managing the power …

Software systems are designed according to guidelines and constraints defined by business
rules. Some of these constraints define the allowable or required values for data handled by …

As one type of machine-learning model, a “decision-tree ensemble model”(DTEM) is
represented by a set of decision trees. A DTEM is mainly known to be valid for structured …

Organizations rely on the logic embedded in their Information Systems for their daily
operations. This logic implements the business rules in place in the organization, which …

Business rules are an important part of the requirements of software systems that are meant
to support an organization. These rules describe the operations, definitions, and constraints …

The Java EE framework, a popular technology of choice for the development of web
applications, provides developers with the means to define access-control policies to protect …

Technical software systems contain extensive and complex computations that are frequently
implemented in an optimized and unstructured way. Computations are, therefore, hard to …

Source code analysis tools are designed to analyze code artifacts with different intents,
which span from improving the quality and security of the software to easing refactoring and …