A flexible method for segmentation in concept assignment

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 135-144

  Gold, N ^a   Bennett, K ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer science; Costs; Gold; Prototypes; Software algorithms; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software prototyping; Software systems; Software tools

Indexed keywords

COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; GOLD; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CONCEPT ASSIGNMENT; MODELING CONCEPTS; PROTOTYPES; SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TOOLS AND METHODS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 34547323297     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2001.921725     Document Type: Article

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