Measuring the conceptual fitness of an application in a computing ecosystem

WISER 2004 - ACM Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-36

  Hsi, Idris ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation cost; Activation energy; Computing ecosystem; Conceptual fitness; Ontological excavation; Software evolution; Use niche; Use potential; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOSYSTEMS; METRIC SYSTEM; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTING ECOSYSTEMS; ONTOLOGICAL EXCAVATION; ONTOLOGY; USER-VISIBLE COVERAGE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644442768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1029997.1030004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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