Our goal is to use the vast repositories of available open source code to generate specific
functions or classes that meet a user's specifications. The key words here are specifications …

The ubiquity of smartphones and social media such as Twitter is clearly blurring traditional
boundaries between producers and consumers of information. This is especially the case in …

Software reuse is widely recognized as an effective way of increasing the quality of software
systems whilst lowering the effort and time involved in their development. Although most of …

As software organisations mature, their repositories of reusable software components from
previous projects will also grow considerably. Remaining conversant with all components in …

User interface design and coding can be complex and messy. We describe a system that
uses code search to simplify and automate the generation of such code. We start with a …

Computer users encounter configuration on daily basis. Whether when they customize an
application they use, customize how a new application is installed, or just customize a query …

Researchers and other knowledge workers frequently produce and use diverse research
artefacts such as papers, data sets, experiment specifications, software, etc. In this, they are …

Code search is to retrieve the method according to the user needs. Many people think of the
query as the only one to reflect the user needs. So they start with the query and find the …

Software reuse can provide significant improvements in software productivity and quality
whilst reducing development costs. Expressing software reuse intentions can be difficult …

Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of
data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic …