Retrieval of reusable components using functional similarity

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 491-530

  Faustle S ^a   Fugini, M G ^a   Damiani, E ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical methods; Fuzzy retrieval; Information storing and retrieval; Keyword searching; Reusable software components; Reuse support repository

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

FUZZY RETRIEVAL; KEYWORD SEARCHING; REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE REPOSITORY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030145277     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199605)26:5<491::AID-SPE24>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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