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Publications
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Papers
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2009
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Brendan Cleary, Chris Exton,
Jim Buckley, Michael English: An empirical analysis of information retrieval based concept
location techniques in software comprehension. Empirical Software
Engineering 14(1): 93-130 (2009)
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2009
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C. Exton and M. Leonard,
Eye tracking technology: A fresh
approach in delirium assessment?, International Review of Psychiatry,
2009, Vol. 21, No. 1, Pages 8-14
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2009
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English, M., Exton, C., Rigon, I.,
and Cleary, B. 2009. Fault detection
and prediction in an open-source software project. InProceedings
of the 5th international Conference on Predictor Models in Software
Engineering (Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada,
May 18 - 19, 2009). PROMISE '09. ACM, New York, NY,
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2009
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Chris Exton, Good Programmers: Nature or Nurture?
(The bed of Procrustes), , Proc. PPIG
09, Limerick, Ireland
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2008
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Jim Buckley, Andrew P. LeGear, Chris Exton, Ross Cadogan,
Trevor Johnston, Bill Looby, Rainer Koschke, (2008), Encapsulating
targeted component abstractions using software Reflexion
Modelling, Journal of Software Maintenance:
Research and Practice, Mar, Volume 20 Issue 2, Pages 107 - 134
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2008
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Chris Exton Thinking about Thinking in Objects:
Methods, Findings and Implications from a Psychological Perspective, Proc.
PPIG 08, Lancaster UK
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2007
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Chris Exton, Gabriela Avram,
Jim Buckley & Andrew LeGear , “An Experiential Report on the
Limitations of Experimentation as a Means of Empirical Investigation”,
PPIG 2007, 19th Annual Workshop, 2nd - 6th July 2007, University of Joensuu, Finland
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2007
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Jim Buckley & Chris Exton, (HCI) “VisiCog: Visualization and Cognition”,
,Proceedings of iHCI07 - The Irish Human-Computer Interaction
Conference", Editors: Luigina Ciolfi and Liam J. Bannon
ISBN/S =
1-905952-02-3
978-1-905952-02-1, University
of Limerick, Ireland.
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2007
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Brendan Cleary & Chris Exton , “Assisting Concept Location in Software Comprehension”,PPIG 2007, 19th Annual
Workshop, 2nd - 6th July 2007, University
of Joensuu, Finland
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2007
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Jim Buckley, Chris Exton, Aaron Quigley & Andrew LeGear, “ESCAPE
Meta Modelling in Software Engineering: When Premature
Commitment is Useful in Representations“, PPIG 2007, 19th Annual
Workshop, 2nd - 6th July 2007, University
of Joensuu, Finland
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2006
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Brendan Cleary, Chris Exton: The Cognitive Assignment Eclipse
Plug-in. ICPC 2006: 241-244
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2006
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Aiden Grandfield, Chris Exton: INFORM: A Framework for Performance
Informed Software Development. ICPC 2006: 245-247
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2006
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Michael Desmond, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chris Exton: Fluid Source Code Views. ICPC 2006:
260-263
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2006
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B. Cleary and C. Exton, "Assisting Concept
Assignment using Probabilistic Classification and Cognitive Mapping,"
presented at 2nd International Workshop on Supporting Knowledge
Collaboration in Software Development (KSCD2006), pp 25-32, Tokyo, Japan,
2006.
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2006
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Desmond, M., Storey, M., and Exton, C. 2006. Fluid Source Code Views. In Proceedings
of the 14th IEEE international Conference on Program Comprehension
(Icpc'06) - Volume 00 (June 14 - 16, 2006). ICPC. IEEE Computer
Society, Washington, DC, 260-263
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2006
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Michael Desmond, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chris Exton, "Fluid
Source Code Views for Just In-Time Comprehension", SPLAT 2006, Bonn, Germany,
March 20-24, 2006
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2005
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Eugene Glynn, Brian
Fitzgerald, Chris Exton: Commercial adoption of open source software: an empirical study.
ISESE 2005: 225-234
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2005
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Hughes, Connor, Jim Buckley,
Chris Exton, Des O'Carroll and SVCR Group. 2005. Towards a Framework for Characterising
Concurrent Comprehension. Journal Computer Science Education.
15(1):7-24.
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2005
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Michael P. O'Brien, Jim Buckley, Christopher Exton, "Empirically
Studying Software Practitioners - Bridging the Gap between Theory and
Practice", ICSM 2005: 433-442
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2005
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Andrew Le Gear, Jim Buckley, Brendan Cleary, J. J.
Collins, Kieran O'Dea, "Achieving a Reuse Perspective within a
Component Recovery Process: An Industrial Scale Case Study", IWPC
2005: 279-288
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2005
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A. Le
Gear, B. Cleary, J. Buckley, J. J. Collins, and C. Exton, "Making a
Reuse Aspectual View Explicit in Existing Software," presented at
Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Co hosted with Aspect Orientated
Software Development (LATE 05), Chicago,
USA, 2005.
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2005
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Pamela O’Shea and Chris Exton, "The Role of Source Code within
Program Summaries describing Maintenance Activities", In P.
Romero, J. Good, E. Acosta Chaparro & S.
Bryant (Eds). Proc. PPIG 05, Brighton UK
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2005
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Deirdre Carew, Dr. Chris Exton, Dr. Jim Buckley, "Preliminary
Study to Empirically Investigate the Comprehensibility of Requirements
Specifications", In P. Romero, J. Good, E. Acosta Chaparro & S. Bryant (Eds). Proc. PPIG 05, Brighton
UK
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2005
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Brendan Cleary, Andrew Le Gear, Christopher Exton, Jim
Buckley:, "A Combined Software Reconnaissance & Static Analysis
Eclipse Visualisation Plug-in", VISSOFT
2005: 121-122
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2005
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Pamela O'Shea, Chris Exton, "An Investigation of
Java Abstraction Usage for Program Modifications", 13th
International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC'05) pp. 65-74
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2004
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John McKeogh, Chris Exton, "Eclipse
plug-in to monitor the programmer behaviour",
OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
archive, Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Pages:
93 - 97 ,2004
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2004
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J.
Joshi, B. Cleary, and C. Exton, "Application of Helix Cone Tree
Visualizations to Dynamic Call Graph Illustration," presented at
Third Program Visualization Workshop, University
of Warwick, UK,
2004.
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2004
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O'Shea, P., Exton, C., "Investigating Patterns
and Task Type correlations in Open Source Online Mailing Lists".
In the Proceedings of the 16th Annual PPIG Workshop, pp 185-192, 5th - 7th
April 2004.
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2004
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Seamus Galvin, J.J. Collins, Chris Exton, Finbar McGurren. "Enhancing
the Role of Interfaces in Software Architecture Description Languages (ADLs)", Proceedings of Workshop of
Architecture Description Languages, IFIP World Computer Congress 2004, Toulouse, France, p93-102, Kluwer Academic Press.
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2004
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Eoin McCarthy and Chris Exton. "THORR - A Focus
+ Context Method for Visualizing Large Software Systems". Third ITiCSE (ACM) Program Visualization Workshop (PVW'04), Warwick, UK, July 2004
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2004
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Ryan, D., Exton, C., "CORBAview : A visualisation tool to aid in the understanding of
CORBA-based distributed applications". In the Proceedings of the
16th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group,
Institute of Technology, Carlow, pp 57-65, 5th -
7th April 2004.
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2004
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Doyle, T., Exton, C., "PicoVis: A Dynamic Visualisation
Tool for Simulating a Bluetooth Communication Environment Enhancing Student
Understanding". In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Workshop
of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Institute of Technology, Carlow, pp 33- 42, 5th - 7th April 2004.
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2004
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O'Shea, P., Exton, C., "The Application of
Content Analysis to Programmer Mailing Lists as a Requirements Method for a
Software Visualisation Tool". To appear
in the Proceedings of the IEEE STEP 2004 Workshop, 17th - 19th September
2004.
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2004
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Brendan Cleary and Chris Exton, "CHIVE - A Program Source
Visualisation Framework", in Proceedings of the IEEE
International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC04), Bari, Italy,
June 24-26, 2004, (Demonstration paper).
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2003
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O'Shea, P., Exton, C., "Describing Software Visualisation Abstractions".
Appeared in the Autumn PPIG Newletter, 2003.
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2003
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Ken Casey and Chris Exton, "A
Java 3D Implementation of a Geon Based Visualization Tool for UML", in Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM Conference on the Principles and Practice of
Programming in Java", Kilkenny City, Ireland June 16-18, 2003, pp.
(63-65).
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2003
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Jim Buckley and Chris Exton, "Blooms’ Taxonomy:
A Framework for Assessing Programmers’ Knowledge of Software Systems",
in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension
(IWPC03), Portland, OR, May 10-11, 2003, pp. (to appear).
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2003
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Pamela O'Shea and Chris Exton, "Does
the empirical evidence support visualisation?",
PPIG03, 15th Annual Workshop on Psychology of Programming Interest Group,Keele University, Keele, UK, April 8-10, pp435-452, 2003.
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2002
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Exton, C, "Constructivism and Program Comprehension Strategies",
(IWPC2002) 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, La
Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 26-29, pp281-284, 2002.
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2002
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A. Hunter and C. Exton, "Elucidate: Employing
information visualisation to aid pedagogy for
students", (AVI '02) Advanced
visual Interfaces, Trento,
ITALY, May 22-24, 2002.
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2001
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A Hunter and C Exton, "Pedagogic benefits of
dynamic visualisation of concurrent Software",
Tertiary Teaching and Learning Conference - Darwin, Australia July 9 -12 2001
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2001
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Leroux, H. and Exton, C. "Visualising
the execution of concurrent object oriented programs dynamically using
UML", The 9-th International Conference in on Computer Graphics,
Visualization and Computer Vision, Czech Republic, February 5 - 9, 2001.
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2001
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Leroux, H. and Exton, C. "COOPE:
A Tool for Representing Concurrent Object-Oriented Program Execution
through Visualisation", 9th Workshop on
Parallel and Distributed Processing PDP 2001, proceedings will be published
by IEEE Computer Society, will be held in Mantova,
Italy, February 7 - 9, 2001.
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2000
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Exton,
C. and Kölling, M., "Concurrency, objects and visualisation",
Australian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2000), ACM, Melbourne, December
2000.
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2000
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C, Exton., "Dynamic
Visualization of Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems", IWALT2000,
Published by the IEEE Computer Society, will be held in New Zealand, December 4-6 2000.
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2000
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R, Polan., C. Exton., K. O'Yang., J
Han., L, Seldon., (Feb 2000), "Academic
Java and Industrial Java: Up Close and at a Distance", Evolve
2000, Sydney, Australia.
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2000
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Exton, C. (July 2000), "Elucidate : A Tool to
Aid Comprehension of Concurrent Object Oriented Execution", in
Proceedings of the fifth International Conference ITiCSE
2000, Helsinki, Finland, July 11-13, 2000
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1998
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Chapter co-author, "Advanced Software
Development Series: Information Systems Interoperability", John
Wiley & Sons Inc. February 1998, ISBN 0 471 98124 9
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1998
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PhD Thesis, Title: "An Interface Language for
the Development of Reliable and Dynamic Distributed Object Systems",
Monash
University, Australia
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1997
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Exton, C., Watkins D. Thompson, D. (Nov 1997), "Comparisons
between CORBA IDL & COM/DCOM MIDL: Interfaces for Distributed Computing",
in Proceedings of the twenty-fifth International Conference TOOLS Pacific,
Published by the IEEE Computer Society, Melbourne,
Australia.
pg 19-33.
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1997
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Exton, C. (Oct 1997), "Distributed Fault
Tolerance Specification Through the use of Interface Definitions",
in Proceedings of the twenty-fourth International Conference TOOLS Asia,
Published by the IEEE Computer Society, Beijing,
China.
pg 311-316.
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1997
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Chris Exton, Ivan Rayner, Jian
Chen (May 1997) "RIDL: An Interface Language for the Design and
Development of Reliable Distributed Object Oriented systems", in
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Quality Engineering
(SQE97), Published by Computational Mechanics Publications. Udine, Italy.
pg 323-332.
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1996
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Chris Exton, Ivan Rayner (Nov 1996) "Exception Semantics
in a Parallel Distributed Object Oriented Environment", in
Proceedings of the twenty first International Conference TOOLS Pacific,
Melbourne, Australia. pg 51.
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1996
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Chris Exton, Jian Chen, (Sept
1996) "Programming by Contract in a Distributed Object Environment",
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Future Software
Technology (ISFST-96), Published by the Software Engineers Association
(Japan), Xi'an, China.
pg 272-278.
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1996
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H.W. Schmidt, A.S.M. Sajeev and
C. Exton (Feb 1996) "Towards an Object-Oriented Distributed
Programming Environment for Mobile Computing",
in Proceedings of the MCDA'96 Australian Workshop on Mobile Computing
& Databases & Applications, Melbourne, Australia.
pg 53-59.
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