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0. Calendar Manager Info:

        Date:   Mon Nov 25 1996
        Start:  1600
        End:    1700
        What:   ANU DCS Seminar - Johannes Sametinger
		Reuse Measurement with Line and Word Runs
		
1. Speaker: Johannes Sametinger
	    Johannes-Kepler Universitaet, Linz, Austria

2. Time:    4:00pm - 5:00pm, Monday, 25th November 1996

3. Place:   Room N101 in the Department of Computer Science
            Ground Floor, CSIT Building, ANU

4. Title:   Reuse Measurement with Line and Word Runs

5. Target Audience: honours students and above


6. Abstract:
	
Software reuse provides several advantages, e.g., increased
productivity and software quality, decreased development time and
costs. Installing reuse programs requires up-front
investments. Empirical data showing that a potential for software
reuse exists in a certain environment will help managers to decide on
such investments. In order to determine the potential productivity
gain it is necessary to know the amount of similarities in one's
systems.

Systematic black-box reuse increases productivity more than white-box
reuse. However, white-box reuse is the usual means of dealing with
common parts in different systems. We will demonstrate that word and
line runs provide an effective means for measuring ad-hoc reuse and
determining reuse potential. The suggested measurement can be used to
determine candidates for reusable components and, thus, help in
focusing reuse investments.

Line and word run measurement can be used to find similarities in any
text and can be used for other purposes as well. We will demonstrate
other applications like spotting locations of possible redesign in
object-oriented programs.

This is joint work with Bart Childs, Texas A&M University.

7. Biography: 

Johannes Sametinger is a research and teaching assistant at the
Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. His research interests
include software engineering, documentation, maintenance, and reuse;
object-oriented programming; and programming environments.  He was a
visiting researcher at Texas A&M University for one year in 1995, and
he is currently visiting Brown University for another. He received a
Dipl.-Ing., or Master's degree, in 1986 and a Dr. techn., i.e. Ph.D.,
in 1991, both in computer science and from the Johannes Kepler
University.  Dr Sametinger has worked with Siemens in Germany on the
development of compilers and programming environments.


8. Contact:
	For more information contact Roger.Clarke[at]cs.anu.edu.au

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