Data mining source code to facilitate program comprehension: Experiments on clustering data retrieved from C++ programs

Program Comprehension, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 12, Issue , 2004, Pages 214-223

  Kanellopoulos, Yiannis ^a   Tjortjis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA CLUSTERING; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 10044236815     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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