Towards automatic establishment of model dependencies using formal concept analysis

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 499-522

  Ivkovic, Igor ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formal concept analysis; Model synchronization; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; MODEL ELEMENTS; MODEL SYNCRONIZATION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748043663     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194006002902     Document Type: Article

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