R.C. Holt: Papers

• 1994
  • A Program Understanding Environment Based on the Star Approach to Tool Integration, S. Mancoridis, R. C. Holt, M. W. Godfrey, CSC '94: ACM Computer Science Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, March 1994.
  • Loosely Integrating Tools Using the Star System, S. Mancoridis and R. Holt, CASCON '94: Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, November, 1994.
  • Using Tube Graphs to Model Architectural Designs of Software Systems, S. Mancoridis and R. C. Holt, University of Toronto Computer Science Research Institute, Technical Report 308, October 1994.
  • A Framework for Specifying and Visualizing Architectural Designs, S. Mancoridis and R. C. Holt, University of Toronto Computer Science Research Institute, Technical Report 300, June 1994.
  • Tool Support for Software Engineering Education, S. Mancoridis, R. C. Holt, and M. W. Godfrey. Proceedings of the ICSE-16 Workshop on Software Engineering Education , Sorrento, Italy, May 1994. Also published as Imperial College Technical Report, Number TR 94/6, June 1994.
• 1995
  • Design Maintenance: Unexpected Architectural Interactions, Ian Carmichael, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, ICSM '95: International Conference on Software Maintenance.
  • A well-formedness theory for C source inclusion, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, ISACC '95: International Symposium on Applied Corporate Computing, pg 18-22.
  • Prototyping a Visual Formalism for System Modelling, M. W. Godfrey, R. C. Holt and S. Mancoridis. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, Sorrento, Italy, May 1994. Also published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 896, Springer Verlag, February 1995.
  • Object-oriented Programming in High Schools the Turing Way, R.C. Holt, Journal of Computer Science Education, 9, 4, Summer 95, pp 18-22.
  • Extending Programming Environments to Support Architectural Design, S. Mancoridis and R. C. Holt, CASE '95: Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 1995.
• 1996
  • Binary Relational Algebra Applied to Software Architecture, R. C. Holt, CSRI Tech Report 345, University of Toronto, March 1996.
  • GASE: Visualizing Software Evolution-in-the-Large, R. C. Holt and J. Pak. WCRE '96: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Monterey, California, November 1996.
  • Recovering the Structure of Software Systems Using Tube Graph Interconnection Clustering, S. Mancoridis and R. C. Holt, ICSM '96: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Monterey, California, November 1996.
  • On Controlling the Interactions of Software Components: An Evolutionary Perspective, S. Mancoridis, R. C. Holt. 1996 Conference on Software Engineering and its Application, Hyderabad, India, August, 1996.
  • A Hybrid Process for Recovering Software Architecture, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, CASCON '96: Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 1996.
  • An Introduction to TA: the Tuple-Attribute Language, R. C. Holt, March 1997 (updated July 2002). [HTML]
  • TA as a Drawing Language, R. C. Holt, April 1997 (updated May 2002).
• 1997
  • The Orphan Adoption Problem in Architecture Maintenance, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, WCRE '97: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Amsterdam, October 1997.
  • The Software Bookshelf, P. Finnigan, R. Holt, I. Kalas, S. Kerr, K. Kontogiannis, H. Muller, J. Mylopoulos, S. Perelgut, M. Stanley, and K. Wong. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 564-593, November 1997. See also Table of Contents
  • Repairing Software Style using Graph Grammars, H. Fahmy, R.C. Holt, S. Mancoridis, CASCON '97: Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November, 1997.
  • Web-Based Presentation of Hierarchic Software Architecture, Vassilios Tzerpos, R.C. Holt and Gary Farmaner, Workshop on Software Engineering (on) the World Wide Web, International Conference on Software Engineering 1997, Boston, May 19, 1997
• 1998
  • The Ramp-Up Problem in Software Projects: A Case Study of How Software Immigrants Naturalize, Susan Sim and R. C. Holt, ICSE '98: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering, April 1998.
  • Algorithms for Managing the Evolution of Software Design, S. Mancoridis, R.C.Holt, SEKE '98: International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering , San Francisco, CA, June, 1998.
  • Archetypal Source Code Searching: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers, S.E. Sim, C.L.A. Clarke, and R.C. Holt, IWPC '98: International Workshop on Program Comprehension, pp 180-187, Ischia, Italy, June, 1998.
  • Structural Manipulations of Software Architecture using Tarski Relational Algebra, R. C. Holt, WCRE '98: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Honolulu, Oct 1998. Slides.
  • Software Botryology: Automatic Clustering of Software Systems, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Large-Scale Software Composition, Vienna, August 1998.
  • Software Architecture Recovery Using Conway's Law, I. T. Bowman and R.C.Holt, CASCON '98, December 1998.
• 1999
  • Extracting Source Models from Java Programs: Parse, Disassemble, or Profile? I.T. Bowman, M. W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. March 1999.
  • Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture, Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster, ICSE '99: International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, May 1999. Paper was awarded runner-up for 2001 IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software: Theory and Practice.
  • Reconstructing Ownership Architectures To Help Understand Software Systems, Ivan T. Bowman and Richard C. Holt. IWPC '99: International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Pittsburgh, May 5-7, 1999.
  • Connecting Software Architecture Recovery Frameworks, Ivan T. Bowman, M. W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. CoSET '99: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Constructing Software Engineering Tools, Los Angeles, May 17-18, 1999. Also published
  • Browsing and Searching Software Architecture, Susan Sim and Richard C. Holt, ICSM '99: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Oxford, England, September, 1999.
  • MoJo: A Distance Metric for Software Clustering, Vassilios Tzerpos and R.C. Holt, WCRE '99: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Atlanta, Oct 6, 1999.
  • Software Architecture Abstraction and Aggregation as Algebraic Manipulations, Ric Holt, CASCON '99, Toronto, November 1999. ( HTML Version)
  • Forward and Reverse Repair of Software Architecture, John B. Tran and Richard C. Holt, CASCON '99, Toronto, November 1999. (HTML Version). Paper was runner-up best paper at conference.
• 2000
  • Connecting architecture reconstruction frameworks, Bowman, I.T.; Godfrey, M.W.; Holt, R.C., Journal of Information and Software Technology, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, January 25, 2000, pp. 91-102
  • Architecture Repair of Open Source Software, John B. Tran, Michael W. Godfrey, Eric H. S. Lee, and Richard C. Holt, IWPC 2000: Proc. of International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
  • On the Stability of Software Clustering Algorithms, Vassilios Tzerpos and Richard C. Holt, IWPC 2000: Proc. of International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
  • Using Graph Rewriting to Specify Software Architectural Transformations, H.Fahmy and R.C. Holt. ASE 2000, Proceedings of Automated Software Engineering, Grenoble, France, Sept. 2000.
  • Software Architecture Transformations, Hoda Fahmy and Richard C. Holt, ICSM 2000: International Conference on Software Maintenance, San Jose, CA, Oct 2000.
  • A Reference Architecture for Web Servers, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, WCRE 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 6, 2000.
  • GXL: Toward A Standard Exchange Format, Richard C. Holt, Andreas Winter, Andy Schurr, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Fachberichte Informatik, 1-2000, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Institut fur Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, May 2000, WCRE 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 6, 2000.
  • ACDC: An Algorithm for Comprehension-Driven Clustering, Vassilios Tzerpos, R. C. Holt, WCRE 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 6, 2000.
  • A Short Introduction to the GXL Software Exchange Format, Richard C. Holt and Andreas Winter, WCRE 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 6, 2000.
  • E/R Schema for the Datrix C/C++/Java Exchange Format, Ahmed Hassan, Ric Holt, Bruno Lague, Sebastien Lapierre, and Charles Leduc, WCRE 2000: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Nov 6, 2000.
• 2001
  • Software Engineering Research in the Bazaar, Ahmed E. Hassan, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt, ICSE 2001: 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada. May, 2001.
  • Software Architecture as a Shared Mental Model, Ric Holt, ASERC Workhop on Software Architecture, University of Alberta, August, 2001.
  • Towards a Standard Schema for C/C++, Rudolf Ferenc, Susan Elliott Sim, Richard C. Holt, Rainer Koschke, Tibor Gyimothy, WCRE 2001: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 2-5, 2001.
  • Union Schemas as the Basis for a C++ Extractor, Thomas Dean, Andrew Malton, Richard Holt, WCRE 2001: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 2-5, 2001.
  • Towards a Better Understanding of Web Applications, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of WSE 2001: International Workshop on Web Site Evolution, Florence, Italy, Nov 10, 2001.
  • Wins and Losses of Algebraic Transformations of Software Architectures, H.M. Fahmy, R.C. Holt, J.R. Cordy, ASE 2001: Automated Software Engineering, San Diego, California, November 26-29, 2001.
• 2002
  • Architecture Recovery of Web Applications - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of ICSE 2002: International Conference on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida, 19-25 May 2002.
  • Software Architecture as a Shared Mental Model, International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Ric Holt, Paris, June, 2002.
  • Using Graph Patterns to Extract Scenarios - (PDF), Jingwei Wu, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceeding of IWPC 2002, La Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 26-29, 2002.
  • On Using a Benchmark to Evaluate C++ Extractors, Susan Elliott Sim, Steve Easterbrook and Richard C. Holt, , International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Paris, June, 2002.
  • Introduction to the Grok Programming Language, Ric Holt, May, 2002. HTML Version
  • Towards a Common Query Language for Reverse Engineering, Richard C. Holt, Andreas Winter, and Jingwei Wu, Technical Report, Institute for Computer Science, Universitat, Koblenz-Landau, August 2002.
• 2003
  • The Build / Comprehend Pipelines, position paper, Richard C. Holt, Michael W. Godfrey, and Andrew J. Malton, Second ASERC Workshop on Software Architecture, Banff, Alberta, February 2003,
  • A Visual Architectural Approach to Maintaining Web Applications - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Annals of Software Engineering - Volume 16 - Special Volume on Software Visualization, 2003.
  • Using Benchmarking to Advance Research: A Challenge to Software Engineering [PDF], Susan Elliott Sim, Steve Easterbrook, and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, 3-10 May, 2003. [PostScript]
  • The Chaos of Software Development, Ahmed E. Hassan & Richard C. Holt, IWPSE 2003, International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, Helsinki, Finland, Sept 1-2, 2003.
  • Migrating Web Frameworks Using Water Transformations - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of COMPSAC 2003:of International Computer Software and Application Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 3-6, 2003.
  • Studying the Chaos of Code Development, Ahmed E. Hassan & Richard C. Holt, Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, November 13-16, 2003, Victoria BC Canada.
  • Completeness of a Fact Extractor, Yuan Lin, Richard C. Holt, Andrew Malton, Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, November 13-16, 2003, Victoria BC Canada.
  • Formalizing Fact Extraction, Yuan Lin & Richard Holt, ATEM 2003: First International Workshop on Meta-Models and Schemas for Reverse Engineering, Victoria, BC, November 13, 2003
• 2004
  • Linker-Based Program Extraction and Its Uses in Studying Software Evolution - PDF, Jingwei Wu and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Unanticipated Software Evolution (FUSE 2004), pp. 1-15, Barcelona, Spain, March 28, 2004.
  • MSR 2004: The International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt and Audris Mockus, Proceedings of ICSE 2004: International Conference on Software Engineering, Scotland, UK, May 23-28, 2004.Workshop Website
  • Resolving Linkage Anomalies in Extracted Software System Models - PDF, Jingwei Wu and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2004), pp. 241-245, Bari, Italy, June 24-26, 2004.
  • Using Development History Sticky Notes to Understand Software Architecture - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of IWPC 2004: International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Bari, Italy, June 24-26, 2004. Slides from the presentation
  • Evolution Spectrographs: Visualizing Punctuated Change in Software Evolution - (PDF), Jingwei Wu, Claus W. Spitzer, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of IWPSE 2004: International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, Kyoto, Japan, September 6-7, 2004.Slides from the presentation
  • Studying The Evolution of Software Systems Using Evolutionary Code Extractors - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of IWPSE 2004: International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, Kyoto, Japan, September 6-7, 2004.Slides from the presentation
  • Predicting Change Propagation in Software Systems - (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of ICSM 2004: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 11-17, 2004.
  • The Small World of Software Reverse Engineering- (PDF), Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of WCRE 2004: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, November 9-12, 2004.
  • Exploring Software Evolution Using Spectrographs - (PDF), Jingwei Wu, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of WCRE 2004: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, November 9-12, 2004.Slides from the presentation
• 2005
  • A lightweight approach for migrating web frameworks, Hassan, Ahmed E.; Holt, Richard C., Journal of Information and Software Technology, Volume: 47, Issue: 8, June 1, 2005, pp. 521-532.
  • The Top Ten List: Dynamic Fault Prediction, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of ICSM 2005: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 25-30, 2005.
  • Comparison of Clustering Algorithms in the Context of Software Evolution, Jingwei Wu, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of ICSM 2005: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 25-30, 2005.
  • Visualizing Historical Data Using Spectrographs, Ahmed E. Hassan, Jingwei Wu and Richard C. Holt, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2005), Como, Italy, September 19-22, 2005.
  • Boxology of NBA and TA: A Basis for Understanding Software Architecture, Andrew J. Malton and Richard C. Holt, Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2005, 8-12 Nov 2005, Pittsburgh.
  • Source versus Object Code Extraction For Recovering Software Architecture, Ahmed E. Hassan, Jack Zhen Ming Jiang, Richard C. Holt, Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2005, 8-12 Nov 2005, Pittsburgh.
  • Cloning by Accident: An Empirical Study of Source Code Cloning Across Software Systems, Raihan Al-Ekram, Cory Kapser, Richard Holt, Michael Godfrey, ISESE 2005, 4th International Conference on Empirical Software Engineering, Nov 2005, Noosa Heads, Australia.
  • Crystallizing Application Configurations to Aid Program Comprehension, Ken (Zanqing) Zhang and Richard C. Holt, PCODA 2005: 1st International Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis hosted by WCRE (Working Conference on Reverse Engineering), Pittsburgh, Nov 5, 2005.
• 2006
  • GXL: A Graph-Based Standard Exchange Format for Reengineering, Ric Holt, Andy Schurr, Susan Elliott Sim, Andreas Winter. Journal of Science of Computer Programming, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2006, pages 149-170, Special Issue on Software Analysis, Evolution and Re-engineering.
  • Information Theoretic Evaluation of Change Prediction Models for Large-Scale Software, Mina Askari, Ric Holt, MSR 2006, Mining Software Repositories, May 2006.
• 2007
  • Applying a Tradeoff Model (TOM) to TACT, Raihan Al-Ekram, Ric Holt and Chris Hobbs, International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, April 2007
  • Release Pattern Discovery via Partitioning: Methodology and Case Study, Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. Proc. of 2007 Intl. Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR-07), May 19-20, 2007 in Minneapolis. [Acceptance rate: 15/39 for full papers, or 38%] Slides.
  • YARN: Animating Software Evolution, Abram Hindle, ZhenMing Jiang, Walid Koleilat, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt. 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT-07), June 25-26 in Banff, Alberta. [Acceptance rate: 15/34 or 44% for full papers] Slides
  • Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems, Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. Proc. of the 2007 Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM-07), 2-5 October 2007 in Paris, France. [Acceptance rate: 41/214 or 21% for full papers]
  • Empirical Evidence for SOC Dynamics in Software Evolution, Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt, Ahmed Hassan, Proc.23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007) Paris, France, October 2-5, 2007.
• 2008
  • "Reading Beside the Lines: Indentation as a Proxy for Complexity Metrics", by Abram J. Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt. Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC-08), June 2008, Amsterdam. [Acceptance rate: 20/57 or 35% for full papers]
    • This paper was selected as one of the best at ICPC-08 will appear in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier) in 2009: preliminary journal version.
  • "Reverse Engineering CAPTCHAs", Abram J. Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt. Proc. of the 2008 Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE-08), 15–18 October 2008, Antwerp, Belgium. [Acceptance rate 20/70 or 29% for full papers]
  • "From Indentation Shapes to Code Structures", Abram J. Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt. Proc. of the 8th IEEE Intl. Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2008), 28–29 September 2008, Beijing, China. [Acceptance rate: 23/61 or 38% for full papers]
  • Grokking Software Architecture, Richard C. Holt, WCRE 2008: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium, October 2008. Slides
• 2009
  • "Reading beside the lines: Using indentation to rank revisions by complexity", Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. Science of Computer Programming, 74(7), May 2009.
    • This is an extended version of our ICPC-08 paper that was invited to a special issue of SCP.
  • "Automatic Classification of Large Changes into Maintenance Categories", Abram J. Hindle, Daniel M. German, Michael W. Godfrey, and Richard C. Holt. Proc. of 2009 IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC-09), 17-19 May 2009, Vancouver. [Acceptance rate 20/74 or 27% for full papers]
  • "Mining Recurrent Activities: Fourier Analysis of Change Events", Abram J. Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt (short paper). ICSE-09 special track on New and Emerging Results (NEIR), 20-22 May 2009, Vancouver. [Acceptance rate 21/118 or 15% for papers in this track]
  • What's Hot and What's Not: Windowing Developer Topic Analysis, Abram J. Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt. Proc. of 2009 IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM-09), Edmonton, Alberta, 20-26 September 2009. [Acceptance rate papers 35/162 or 22% for full papers].
  • DRACA: Decision Support for Root Cause Analysis and Change Impact Analysis for CMDBs, Sarah Nadi, Ric Holt, Ian Davis, Serge Mankovskii, Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON 2009), Best Paper, Toronto, Canada, Nov 2-5, 2009.
• 2010
  • Does the past say it all? Using history to predict change sets in a CMDB, Sarah Nadi, Ric Holt, Serge Mankovskii, CSMR 2010, European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, March 2010.
  • "Software Process Recovery Using Recovered Unified Process Views", Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey and Richard C. Holt. Proc. of the 2010 IEEE Intl. Conference on Software Maintenance, Timisoara, Romania, 12-8 September 2010. [Acceptance rate 36/133 or 27% for full papers]
  • Towards Adaptive Replication Reconfiguration for QoS; Raihan Al-Ekram and Ric Holt; International Symposium on Middleware and Network Applications (MNA 2010); Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; April 12-14, 2010.
  • Optimal Tradeoff; Raihan Al-Ekram and Ric Holt; 2010 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS 2010), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; July 12-15, 2010.
  • OSSR: Optimal Single Site Replication; Raihan Al-Ekram and Ric Holt; 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2010); Taipei, Taiwan; September 6-9, 2010.
• 2011
  • Multifractal Aspects of Software Development (short paper), Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey and Richard C. Holt. Special short paper track on New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) in Proc. of 2011 Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-11), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011. [Acceptance rate: 46/198 or 23% for papers in this track]
  • QoS-Aware Middleware for Scalable Replication, Raihan Al-Ekram and Ric Holt, 7th International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications at 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (FINA-AINA 2011).
  • Make It or Break It: Mining Anomalies in Linux Kbuild. Sarah Nadi and Ric Holt. WCRE’11: Proceedings of the 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 26% for full papers.
• 2012
  • Analyzing Assembler To Eliminate Dead Functions: An Industrial Experience, by Ian J. Davis, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt, Serge Mankovskii, and Nick Minchenko (industrial track paper), Proc. of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Re-engineering (CSMR), Szeged, Hungary, 27-30 March 2012.
  • Life and Death of Software Packages: An Evolutionary Study of Debian, 22nd CASCON annual international conference, Centre for Advanced Studies Research, IBM Canada Software Laboratory, August 4, 2012.
  • Mining Kbuild to Detect Variability Anomalies in Linux. Sarah Nadi and Ric Holt. CSMR’12: Proceedings 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Szeged, Hungary, 2012. Acceptance Rate 27% for full papers.

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