In this paper, we present DeFer—a fast, high-quality, scalable, and nonstochastic fixed-outline floorplanning algorithm. DeFer generates a nonslicing floorplan by compacting a slicing floorplan. To find a good slicing floorplan, instead of searching through numerous slicing trees by simulated annealing as in traditional approaches, DeFer considers only one single slicing tree. However, we gener...

With the development of smart mobile devices and various mobile applications, content-oriented service has become the most popular service which occupies network resources and results in high traffic load. In order to improve quality of experience in radio access network and reduce the OpEx and CapEx of operators, wireless network virtualization and network slicing come into the vision and are ...

systems of computers and their application in the lives of modern human beings are vastly expanding. in any kind of computer application, failure in computer systems can lead to a range of financial and mortal losses. indeed, the major origin of software failure can be located in designing or implementing software. with regard to these statistics, 30% of the software projects have been prospero...

Program slicing is a source code analysis and manipulation technique, in which a subprogram is identified based on a user-specified slicing criterion. The criterion captures the point of interest within the program, while the process of slicing consists of following dependencies to locate those parts of the program that may affect the slicing criterion [Weiser 1979]. Some flavours of slicing me...

This paper presents an approach to representing dependencies for object-oriented (OO) Ada 95 programs. This new approach distinguishes subcomponents for different objects and represents the effects of polymorphism and dynamic bindings. Based on this model, we developed approaches to slicing subprograms, packages/types and hierarchies of types. Our slicing algorithm is more efficient because mos...

Dependence is a relation that determines which parts of a system influence the computation of another part. Dependence analysis underpins many activities in computer science, such as model checking, debugging, slicing, security. We are interested in dependence analysis for slicing for finite state machine-based models. In this paper we survey existing dependence relations defined for slicing at...

Slicing is an approach to divide a program into chunks that share a common property, like their contribution to the result of a calculation. Slicing can be used to leverage the power of refactoring tools by providing a deeper understanding of the code. For example, the Extract Method refactoring used to extract a series of statements can—with the aid of a slicing algorithm—be enhanced to allow ...

This study explores the relationship between program slices and faults. The aim is to investigate whether the characteristics of program slices can be used to identify faultprone software components. Slicing metrics and dependence clusters are used to characterise the slicing profile of a software component, then the relationship between the slicing profile of the component and the faults in th...