Empirical evidence for SOC dynamics in software evolution

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 244-254

  Wu, Jingwei ^a   Holt, Richard C ^b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^c  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMICS; FRACTALS; MAINTENANCE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; EVOLUTION (CO); FRACTAL STRUCTURES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LONG RANGE CORRELATION (LRC); OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS; POWER FUNCTIONS; POWER LAWS; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; SELF-ORGANIZED; SOFTWARE CHANGES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PRACTICES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC POWER (SP); SYSTEM LIFE-TIME; TIME SERIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349120128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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