Abstract: Software comprehension is an important part of software maintenance. To understand a piece of large and complex software, the first problem to be solved is where to start the understanding ...

A plugin is a way for a third party to extend the functionality of an application. A plugin implements extension points declared by application or other plugins. Also, a plugin can define extension ...

Using generics results in more robust code and avoids ClassCastExceptions in your Java programs. This in-depth tutorial introduces you to generics and their types and methods. Generics are used in ...

An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

Abstract: Key classes have become excellent starting points for developers to understand unknown software systems. Up to now, a variety of approaches have been proposed to mine key classes in a ...

ASTExtractor is an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) extractor for Java source code, based on the Eclipse compiler. The tool functions as a wrapper of the Eclipse compiler and allows exporting the AST of ...

Statistical machine learning methods are increasingly used for neuroimaging data analysis. Their main virtue is their ability to model high-dimensional datasets, e.g., multivariate analysis of ...