Structural evolution of an Open Source system: A case study

Program Comprehension, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 12, Issue , 2004, Pages 172-182

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a,b   Morisio, Maurizio ^a   Ramil, Juan F ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; TREE STRUCTURE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044242799     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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