An empirical study of the robustness of two module clustering fitness functions

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1029-1036

  Harman, Mark ^a   Swift, Stephen ^b   Mahdavi, Kiarash ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Fitness Functions; Modularization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLUSTERING; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; MODULARIZATION; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (SBSE);

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 32444442579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1068009.1068184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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