João Correia

How Does Incomplete Composite Refactoring Affect Internal Quality Attributes?

2020

Program refactoring consists of code changes applied to improve the internal structure of a program and, as a consequence, its comprehensibility. Recent studies indicate that developers often perform composite refactorings, i.e., a set of two …

Towards Evolution of Deep Neural Networks through Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning

2024

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied to a wide range of problems. However, two main limitations are commonly pointed out. The first one is that they require long time to design. The other …