Empirical Software Linguistics: An Investigation of Code Reviews, Recommendations and Faults

Communication is fundamental to human nature and underlies many of its successes as a species. In recent decades, the adoption of increasingly abstract software languages has supported many advances in computer science and software engineering. Although in many regards distinct from natural language, software language has proven surprisingly...

Project Jackal Final Report

For companies that deliver hardware services, the ability to scale dynamically has many advantages. In a special case, a company may have some computing resources available and desire to scale out when traffic peaks. A periodical budget may then be allocated, which needs to be used efficiently. This can be achieved through a combination of...