Program comprehension is a study of how programmers understand existing programs. First, we delineate the research field and provide a brief overview of program comprehension theories. Then we present a literature review of program comprehension study results, techniques and tools – from overall comprehension through feature location to understanding the details and rationale behind the source ...

Article history: Received 10 March 2015 Received in revised form 6 June 2015 Accepted 10 July 2015 Available online 14 July 2015 Editor: J. Hisano We propose a novel RG method to specify the location of the IR fixed point in lattice gauge theories and apply it to the SU(3) gauge theories with N f fundamental fermions. It is based on the scaling behavior of the propagator through the RG analysis...

The study of culture in international relations theories takes a wide range of complex issues, which without enough perception about these issues, certainly our understanding about the role of culture in international relations theories will be incomplete. Since in real world the study of international affairs is best understood as traditional competition between traditional mainstream theories...

The proliferation and convergence of wireless communications, location technologies, information systems, the Internet, and mobile devices has given rise to new types of decision support utilities commonly referred to as location-based mobile decision support systems (M-DSS). A location-based M-DSS can be described as an information system that exploits knowledge about where a user is located, ...

A new direction of research in Competitive Location theory incorporates theories of Consumer Choice Behavior in its models. Following this direction, this paper studies the importance of consumer behavior with respect to distance or transportation costs in the optimality of locations obtained by traditional Competitive Location models. To do this, it considers different ways of defining a key p...

Currently, two frameworks of causal reasoning compete: Whereas dependency theories focus on dependencies between causes and effects, dispositional theories model causation as an interaction between agents and patients endowed with intrinsic dispositions. One important finding providing a bridge between these two frameworks is that failures of causes to generate their effects tend to be differen...