Identifying crosscutting concerns using partitional clustering

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 386-395

  Czibula, Gabriela ^a   Cojocar, Grigoreta Sofia ^a   Czibula, Istvan Gergely ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aspect mining; Clustering; Crosscutting concerns

Indexed keywords

ASPECT MINING; ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING PROCESS; CROSSCUTTING CONCERN; CROSSCUTTING CONCERNS; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; METRIC DISTANCES; OPEN SOURCES; PARTITIONAL CLUSTERING; PARTITIONAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MINING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 66349124658     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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