Evaluating the impact of software evolution on software clustering

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-108

  Beck, Fabian ^a   Diehl, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING QUALITY; CLUSTERING RESULTS; DATA DENSITY; DATA SOURCE; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE CLUSTERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STILL MISSING; STRUCTURAL APPROACH; STRUCTURAL CODES; STRUCTURAL DATA;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650657636     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2010.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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