Traceability recovery using numerical analysis

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-204

  Capobianco, Giovanni ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^a,b   Panichella, Annibale ^a   Panichella, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

B splines; Empirical studies; Information retrieval; Jensen Shannon method; Latent semantic indexing; Numerical analysis; Traceability recovery; Vector space model

Indexed keywords

B SPLINES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; JENSEN-SHANNON METHOD; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SPLINES; VECTORS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 73449092169     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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