When functions change their names: Automatic detection of origin relationships

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 143-154

  Kim, Sunghun ^a   Pan, Kai ^a   Whitehead Jr , E James ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SERVERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ORIGIN DETECTION; SIGNIFICANCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33845432907     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2005.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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