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Using automatic clustering to produce high-level system organizations of source code
Abstract
We describe a collection of algorithms that we developed and implemented to facilitate the automatic recovery of the modular structure of a software system from its source code. We treat automatic modularization as an optimization problem. Our algorithms make use of traditional hill-climbing and genetic algorithms.
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Self-citationApplications of clustering techniques to software partitioning, recovery and restructuring
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- Authors
- Mancoridis, S., Mitchell, B. S., Rorres, C., Chen, Y., & Gansner, E. R.
- Venue
- Proceedings. 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension. IWPC'98 (Cat. No.98TB100242)
- Publisher
- IEEE Comput. Soc
- Published
- 2002-11-27
- Pages
- 45-52
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- W1914987135
- Cited by
- 484
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- FWCI
- 22.71
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
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- closed
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