A framework for experimental evaluation of clustering techniques

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 201-210

  Koschke, Rainer ^a   Eisenbarth, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Benchmark testing; Control systems; Cost accounting; Humans; Measurement standards; System testing; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); AUTOMATIC TESTING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; STANDARDS; TERMINOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; BENCHMARK TESTING; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HUMANS; MEASUREMENT STANDARDS; SYSTEM TESTING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84951099346     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2000.852494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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