Towards a semantic metrics suite for object-oriented design

"Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems

Volumn , Issue TOOL 34, 2000, Pages 71-80

  Etzkorn, Letha ^a   Delugach, Harry ^a  

^a Computer Science Department ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual graphs; Knowledge based systems; Natural language processing; Object oriented metrics; Program understanding; Semantic networks

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0034586665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TOOLS.2000.868960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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