Defining and applying measures of distance between specifications

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 673-703

  Jilani, Lamia Labed ^b   Desharnais, Jules ^a,c   Mili, Ali ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Institut de Recherche en Sciences   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

COTS integration; Distance metrics; Formal specifications; Lattices; Relational specifications; Relations; Software adaptation; Software libraries

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE LIBRARIES;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035418268     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.940565     Document Type: Article

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