Towards understanding programs through wear-based filtering

Proceedings SoftVis '05 - ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 183-192

  DeLine, Robert ^a   Khella, Amir ^b   Czerwinski, Mary ^a   Robertson, George ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Computational wear; Implicit query; Program comprehension; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GAME THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COMPUTATIONAL WEAR; IMPLICIT QUERY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 30944459696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056018.1056044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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