Code reuse, code querying and computer aided programming are some of the main research challenges in software engineering. Therefore, we have introduced CodeOntology as an approach to leverage recent advances in the Semantic Web area and the impressive amount of open source code freely available online, to provide a semantic view of software systems by extracting structured information from sou...

Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) that rely on audit data exhibit a delay between attack execution and attack detection. A knowledgeable attacker can use this delay to disable the IDS, often by executing an attack that increases privilege. To prevent this we have begun to develop a system to detect these attacks before they are executed. The system separates incoming data into severa...

Internet has made available huge amounts of information, also source code. Source code repositories and, in general, programming related websites, facilitate its reuse. In this work, we propose a simple approach to the detection of cross-language source code reuse, a nearly investigated problem. Our preliminary experiments, based on character n-grams comparison, show that considering different ...

Despite the raising awareness about the importance of open innovation communities in knowledge economies, empirical evidence about the structural determinants of knowledge reuse in these communities is lacking. In order to address this gap, the current study sets out to investigate the network-level determinants of knowledge reuse in open source projects. I suggest tracking code reuse across op...

Dynamic loading is a core feature used on current systems to (i) enable modularity and reuse, (ii) reduce memory footprint by sharing code pages of libraries and executables among processes, and (iii) simplify update procedures by eliminating the need to recompile executables when a library is updated. The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is a generic specification that describes how execut...

In the early days of programming, when machines were hard-wired and every byte of storage was precious, subroutines were invented to conserve memory. Their function was to allow programmers to execute code segments more than once, and under different (parameterized) circumstances, without having to duplicate that code in each physical location where it was needed. Software reuse was born. Howev...

The Wireless Office System (WOS) is getting its momentum in the wireless industry, how to effectively use the 3G resources to deploy optimized WOS system is the focus of this proposal. The first one is the concept and implementation of the code reuse of 3G WOS. To compete with wire line and to ensure the success of wireline migration to wireless, the MOU needs to be substantially increased for ...

PAGE As programmers develop software, they instinctively sense that source code exists that could be reused if found – many programming tasks are common to many software projects across different domains. Oftentimes, a programmer will attempt to create new software from this existing source code, such as third-party libraries or code from online repositories. Unfortunately, several major challe...

This survey tries to give an account of what type of trends exist today in software reuse and testing. The focus was to try to find out how developers use different tools today and what tools are lacking, especially in the field of reuse and testing. The population came from different types of communities and organizations, to better give us a generalized picture of today’s developers. We found...