An evolutionary approach to constructing effective software reuse repositories

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-140

  Henninger, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Component repositories; Information retrieval; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

CODEFINDER RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE LIBRARY; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PEEL; SOFTWARE REUSE REPOSITORIES;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031124378     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/248233.248242     Document Type: Article

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