Using clustering technique to restructure programs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP'04

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 853-858

  Lung, Chung Horng ^a   Zaman, Marzia ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cistel Technology Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LIGHTING;

CLUSTERING; HIGH COHESIVE FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL TAXONOMY; SOFTWARE RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

COUPLINGS;

EID: 12344261957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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