Visual data mining and analysis of software repositories

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-428

  Voinea, Lucian ^a   Telea, Alexandru ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data mining; Maintenance; Software engineering; Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAINTENANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 34248145327     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2007.01.031     Document Type: Article

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