Locality metrics and program physical structures

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 159-166

  Zhang, Kang ^a,b   Gorla, Narasimhaiah ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; POLYNOMIALS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH METHOD; POLYNOMIAL TIME COMPLEXITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034300676     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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