Object identification in legacy code as a grouping problem

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 689-696

  Sahraoui, Houari ^a   Valtchev, Petko ^a   Konkobo, Idrissa ^a   Shen, Shiqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual clustering; Genetic algorithms; Legacy systems migration; Object structure discovery; Reengineering

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL CLUSTERING; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; OBJECT STRUCTURE DISCOVERY;

ALGORITHMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0036391941     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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