Modeling clones evolution through time series

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 273-280

  Antoniol, G ^a   Casazza, G ^b   Di Penta, M ^a   Merlo, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone analysis; Software evolution; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLONE ANALYSIS; CODE FRAGMENTS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE; SYSTEM REDESIGN;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; HTML; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNIX;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956616360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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