Revealing class structure with concept lattices

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 353-363

  Dekel, Uri ^a   Gil, Yossi ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer science; Entropy; Gas insulated transmission lines; Java; Lattices; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software systems; Visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENTROPY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

BINARY RELATION; CLASS STRUCTURES; CONCEPT LATTICES; GAS INSULATED TRANSMISSION LINES; JAVA; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NOVEL VISUALIZATIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 18444406513     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2003.1287267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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