A search engine for finding highly relevant applications

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 475-484

  Grechanik, Mark ^a   Fu, Chen ^a   Xie, Qing ^a   McMillan, Collin ^b   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^b   Cumby, Chad ^a  

^a ACCENTURE   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT TASKS; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; JAVA PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCEFORGE;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 77954692030     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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