Extracting reusable object-oriented legacy code segments with combined formal concept analysis and slicing techniques for service integration

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 385-392

  Zhang, Zhuopeng ^a   Yang, Hongji ^a   Chu, William C ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WEB SERVICES; XML;

FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; LEGACY SYSTEM; SERVICE PACKAGING PROCESSES; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 34250752252     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2006.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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