Managing design trade-offs for a program understanding and transformation tool

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

David Lorge Parnas · Communications of the ACM · 1972 · 4.7K citations · Full text

Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering +16

Program Slicing

Mark Weiser · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1984 · 3.2K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +14

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Brooks · Computer · 1987 · 3.2K citations

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Yacc : Yet Another Compiler Compiler

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The structure of the “THE”-multiprogramming system

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