Software execution processes as an evolving complex network

• Published in: Information sciences Vol. 179; no. 12; pp. 1903 - 1928
• Main Authors: Cai, Kai-Yuan, Yin, Bei-Bei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 30.05.2009
• Subjects: Complex network; Directed topological graph; Experimental softwarics; Software execution process; Software law problem; Software mirror graph; Software mirror graph; Software execution process; Directed topological graph; Experimental softwarics; Software law problem; Complex network

Inspired by the surprising discovery of several recurring structures in various complex networks, in recent years a number of related works treated software systems as a complex network and found that software systems might expose the small-world effects and follow scale-free degree distributions. D...