When programmers develop or maintain software, they instinctively sense that there are fragments of code that other developers implemented somewhere, and these code fragments coul...
As software systems continue to grow and evolve, locating code for maintenance and reuse tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Existing static code search techniques using natura...
The paper addresses the problem of concept location in source code by presenting an approach which combines Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). In th...
The number of software systems is increasing at a rapid rate. For example, SourceForge currently has about sixty thousand software systems registered, twenty-two thousand of which...
Shinji Kawaguchi, Pankaj K. Garg, Makoto Matsushit...
The ready availability of online source code examples has changed the cost structure of programming by example modification. However, current search tools are wholly separate from...
Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva, Marcos Weskamp, Scott...