This thesis attempts to gauge the strengths and limitations of the Java programming language in terms of its use in the production of multimedia compositions: in particular, the ways in which Java supports the creation of interactive, non-deterministic musical works.…

Java provides many attractive features such as platform independence, execution safety, garbage collection and object orientation. These features facilitate application development but are expensive to support; applications written in Java are often much slower than their counterparts written in C…

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O Preço Público é uma comunidade virtual web para compartilhamento do conhecimento dos preços de produtos de empresas tradicionais (que não utilizam e-commerce). Esse trabalho tem como objetivo principal definir um modelo arquitetônico capaz de integrar o software social Preço…

A atividade de manutenção é realizada visando a alteração da estrutura do software garantindo sua integridade. Esta tarefa torna-se menos árdua quando se tem ampla compreensão do comportamento dos diversos componentes do software. Visando a obtenção desta compreensão, pesquisas surgiram…

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Nondeterminism makes distributed concurrent systems difficult to test, monitor and control. An execution of a message-passing system is nondeterministic when message races exist. Message race occurs when, e.g., multiple conflicting requests from different clients are competing to be executed within…

In this thesis, we present a cognitive theory of object-oriented metrics and an empirical study which has as objectives to formally test this theory while validating the metrics and to build a post-release fault proneness prediction model. The four cognitive…