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Hongji Yang

Hongji Yang is Leader of SERG at the Software Technology Research Laboratory at De Montfort University, UK. He serves in the Department of Computer Technology. His research interests include software engineering and distributed computing. He teaches Software Architecture and Software Evolution. He served as a programme co-chair at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 1999 and as programme chair at IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference 2002.

Publications

International Journal of SME Research and Innovation (IJSMERI)

Varun Gupta. Est. 2024.

The International Journal of SME Research and Innovation (IJSMERI) is a multidisciplinary Journal of Practice dedicated to advancing knowledge and insights into practical...

An Approach to Evolving Legacy Software System into Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud computing is a new paradigm for the intent of distributed resources sharing and coordinated problem solution. Affected by the Cloud trend and Service-Oriented need, many...

Software Reuse in the Emerging Cloud Computing Era

With the rapid development of computing hardware, high-speed network, web programming, distributed and parallel computing, and other technologies, cloud computing has recently...

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution reports recent advances in applications of two popularly used languages, UML and XML, in the field of software evolution. This...

Software Evolution with UML and XML

Software Evolution with UML and XML provides a forum where expert insights are presented on the subject of linking three current phenomena: software evolution, UML and XML....

Visualising COBOL Legacy Systems with UML: An Experimental Report

This chapter presents a report of an experimental approach that uses WSL as an intermediate language for the visualisation of COBOL legacy systems in UML. Key UML techniques are...

A Unified Software Reengineering Approach towards Model Driven Architecture Environment

When developing a software system, there are a number of principles, paradigms, and tools available to choose from. For a specific platform or programming language, a standard...

Enhancing Software Maintainability by Unifying and Integrating Standards

Software standards are highly recommended because they promise faster and more efficient ways for software development with proven techniques and standard notations. Designers...