Enhancing design reusability by clustering specifications

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn Part F128723, Issue , 1996, Pages 493-499

  Ouyang, Youwen ^a   Carver, Doris L ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Reusability; Software design

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIES; LIFE CYCLE; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; DESIGN REUSABILITY; MAINTENANCE COST; REQUIREMENTS PHASE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE PROBLEMS; Z SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 79959873916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/331119.331431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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