Conceptual Entropy and Its Effect on Class Hierarchies

Computer

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 59-63

  Dvorak, Joseph ^a  

^a Northrop Corporation ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MODIFICATION; PROBABILITY; SELECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLASS HIERARCHIES; CLUSTER; CONCEPTUAL ENTROPY; HIERARCHY LEVEL SELECTION; SUBCLASSING ALGORITHM; SUPERCLASS SELECTION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0028444991     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.294856     Document Type: Article

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5. J. Dvorak, Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling: A Classification- Theory-Based Approach to Object-Oriented Analysis, doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, 1994.
6. J. Dvorak and T. Moher, “An Empirical Study of Class Specification via Conceptual Properties,” Tech. Report UIC-EECS-ICE 94–03, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Jan. 1994.