Software lifetime and its evolution process over generations

Proceedings - Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 63-69

  Tamai, T ^a   Torimitsu, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SURVEYS;

EVOLUTION PROCESS; MONOTONICITY; RESEARCH TOPICS; SIZE GROWTHS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION PROCESS; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84987232053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.1992.242557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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