A cognitive approach to program understanding

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 1-7

  Bertels, Koen ^a   Vanneste, Philip ^b   De Backer, Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; SEMANTICS;

BASIC CONCEPTS; COGNITIVE APPROACHES; COGNITIVE MODEL; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; HUMAN EXPERT; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE; TUTORING SYSTEM;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33747352555     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.1993.287784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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