Statistical Modelling of Software Evolution Processes

Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 143-160

  Tamai, Tetsuo ^a   Nakatani, Takako ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b S Lagoon Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cash receipts transaction management system; Distribution model; Empirical approach; Heat exchange simulation system; Observed evolution patterns; Securities management system; Software evolutionary process statistical modelling; System evolution process insights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889322534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470871822.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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