Ontological Excavation: Unearthing the core concepts of the application

Reverse Engineering - Working Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 345-352

  Hsi, Idris ^a   Potts, Colin ^a   Moore, Melody ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain analysis; Reverse engineering; Software evolution; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0348042962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2003.1287265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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