Decomposing object-oriented class modules using an agglomerative clustering technique

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-101

  Fokaefs, Marios ^a   Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^b   Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^b   Sander, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decomposing object oriented class modules using an agglomerative clustering technique

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; CLASS DECOMPOSITION; COHESION METRICS; DESIGN FLAWS; DESIGN QUALITY; JACCARD DISTANCE; NEW CONCEPT; OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASS; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM;

ADHESION; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECOMPOSITION; DESIGN; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 70849133168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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