It is difficult to maintain and to adapt poorly written code presenting shortcomings in its structure. Refactoring techniques are used to improve the source code and the structure of applications, making them better and ...

Middleware for interactive digital TV systems are designed to provide convenient abstractions to overcome differences of hardware/software in order to improve the portability of applications. The development of a middleware ...

Many information systems that work with RDR (Relational Databases) have problems in the design of their databases. Such failures may result from design specification, requirement changes or even lack of knowledge to produce ...

This dissertation presents a study case on object-oriented systems refactoring. Systems developed according to the object-oriented paradigm may contain reusable code, even though not always have been designed for it. Systems ...