Evaluating similarity measures for software decompositions

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 368-377

  Wen, Zhihua ^a   Tzerpos, Vassilios ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DECOMPOSITION; GRAPH THEORY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; SOFTWARE DECOMPOSITIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC DATA SETS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 18044387172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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