Ranking significance of software components based on use relations

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-225

  Inoue, Katsuro ^a   Yokomori, Reishi ^a   Yamamoto, Tetsuo ^b   Matsushita, Makoto ^a   Kusumoto, Shinji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Component rank; Graph representation model; Program analysis; Reusable libraries; Reuse models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SEARCH ENGINES; VECTORS;

COMPONENT RANK; GRAPH REPRESENTATION MODEL; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; REUSABLE LIBRARIES; REUSE MODELS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT LIBRARY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21244460476     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.38     Document Type: Article

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