The past 40 years have witnessed extensive research on fractal structure and scale-free
dynamics in the brain. Although considerable progress has been made, a comprehensive …

In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development
practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are …

Complex software systems are among most sophisticated human-made systems, yet only
little is known about the actual structure of'good'software. We here study different software …

When separately written programs are composed so that they may cooperate, they may
instead destructively interfere in unanticipated ways. These hazards limit the scale and …

Despite the importance of software metrics and the large number of proposed metrics, they
have not been widely applied in industry yet. One reason might be that, for most metrics, the …

We present a comprehensive study of an implementation of the Smalltalk object oriented
system, one of the first and purest object-oriented programming environment, searching for …

A single statistical framework, comprising power law distributions and scale-free networks,
seems to fit a wide variety of phenomena. There is evidence that power laws appear in …

In this paper, we present a complex network approach to the study of software engineering.
We have found universal network patterns in a large collection of object-oriented (OO) …

Large amounts of Java software have been written since the language's escape into
unsuspecting software ecology more than ten years ago. Surprisingly little is known about …

Application-specific extensions to the computational capabilities of a processor provide an
efficient mechanism to meet the growing performance and power demands of embedded …