Walcélio L. Melo

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Walcélio L. Melo is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Walcélio L. Melo has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Information Systems, 19 papers in Software and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Walcélio L. Melo's work include Software Engineering Research (31 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (19 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (17 papers). Walcélio L. Melo is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (31 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (19 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (17 papers). Walcélio L. Melo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Walcélio L. Melo's co-authors include Lionel Briand, Victor R. Basili, Khaled El Emam, Prémkumar Dévanbu, Jürgen Wüst, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Javam C. Machado, Steven Condon, Hakim Lounis and Saïda Benlarbi and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Journal of Systems and Software.

In The Last Decade

Walcélio L. Melo

37 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators

1996 1.3k citations Victor R. Basili, Lionel Briand et al. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Support to Large Software Development Process 2005 ·Noureddine Belkhatir, Jacky Estublier, Walcélio L. Melo	2
2	User modeling and control in Adele system 2003 ·Walcélio L. Melo, Noureddine Belkhatir, Jacky Estublier	0
3	The optimal class size for object-oriented software 2002 ·IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ·Khaled El Emam, Saïda Benlarbi, Neeraj Goel, Walcélio L. Melo, Hakim Lounis, S. Rai	54
4	Supporting software maintenance processes in TEMPO 2002 ·Noureddine Belkhatir, Walcélio L. Melo	0
5	Understanding and predicting the process of software maintenance releases 2002 ·Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park) ·Victor R. Basili, Lionel Briand, Steven Condon, Yong‐Mi Kim, Walcélio L. Melo, (unknown)	48
6	The prediction of faulty classes using object-oriented design metrics 2001 ·Journal of Systems and Software ·Khaled El Emam, Walcélio L. Melo, Javam C. Machado	254
7	AN INVESTIGATION ON THE USE OF MACHINE LEARNED MODELS FOR ESTIMATING SOFTWARE CORRECTABILITY 1999 ·International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ·(unknown), Hakim Lounis, Walcélio L. Melo	23
8	A Concept Formation Based Approach to Object Identification in Procedural Code 1999 ·Automated Software Engineering ·Houari Sahraoui, Hakim Lounis, Walcélio L. Melo, Hafedh Mili	11
9	AN INDUCTIVE METHOD FOR DISCOVERING DESIGN PATTERNS FROM OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS 1998 ·Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park) ·Forrest Shull, Walcélio L. Melo, Victor R. Basili	40
10	Spice: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination 1997 ·IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks ·Khaled El Emam, Walcélio L. Melo, (unknown)	177
11	An investigation into coupling measures for C++ 1997 ·Lionel Briand, Prémkumar Dévanbu, Walcélio L. Melo	240
12	Characterizing and modeling the cost of rework in a library of reusable software components 1997 ·Victor R. Basili, Steven Condon, Khaled El Emam, (unknown), Walcélio L. Melo	35
13	Analytical and empirical evaluation of software reuse metrics 1996 ·International Conference on Software Engineering ·Prémkumar Dévanbu, (unknown), Walcélio L. Melo, William M. Thomas	73
14	Understanding and predicting the process of software maintenance releases 1996 ·International Conference on Software Engineering ·Victor R. Basili, Lionel Briand, Steven Condon, Yong‐Mi Kim, Walcélio L. Melo, (unknown)	90
15	How reuse influences productivity in object-oriented systems 1996 ·Communications of the ACM ·Victor R. Basili, Lionel Briand, Walcélio L. Melo	183
16	AINSI: an inductive method for software process improvement: concrete steps and guidelines 1995 ·Lionel Briand, Khaled El Emam, Walcélio L. Melo	11
17	ADELE-TEMPO: an environment to support process modelling and enaction 1994 ·Noureddine Belkhatir, Jacky Estublier, Walcélio L. Melo	36
18	Characterizing and assessing a large-scale software maintenance organization: experience report 1994 ·Lionel Briand, Walcélio L. Melo, Carolyn Seaman, Victor R. Basili	2
19	Supporting software maintenance evolution processes in the Adele system 1992 ·Noureddine Belkhatir, Walcélio L. Melo, Jacky Estublier, (unknown)	4
20	Supporting software maintenance evolution processes in the Adele system 1992 ·Noureddine Belkhatir, Walcélio L. Melo, Jacky Estublier, (unknown)	1

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