Verifying design modularity, hierarchy, and interaction locality using data clustering techniques

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages 419-424

  Yu, Liguo ^a   Ramaswamy, Srini ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Hierarchy; Interaction locality; Modularity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ACQUISITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

DATA CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; HIERARCHY; INTERACTION LOCALITY; MODULARITY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248346770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1233341.1233417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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