The concept assignment problem in program understanding

Biggerstaff, Ted J.; Mitbander, Bharat G.; Webster, Dallas

doi:10.1109/icse.1993.346017

Cited by 113 publications

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“…Biggerstaff et al [3] defined the concept assignment problem as "… discovering human oriented concepts and assigning them to their implementation instances within a program …". The problem has been rephrased in the research community in the past decades as concept location in software.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the use of relevance feedback in IR-based concept location

Haiduc

Marcus

Menzies

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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On the use of relevance feedback in IR-based concept location

Haiduc

Marcus

Menzies

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

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“…He needs to discover where in the system shipping costs are computed and particularly what data is involved. In the software maintenance literature this kind of problem has traditionally been known as "concept location" or "concept assignment" (Biggerstaff, 1993). Suppose the maintainer has located one identifier as a starting point "GetUSPSRate".…”

Section: Using Semantic Search To Support Maintenance Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maintaining SOA Systems of the Future - How Can Ontological Modeling Help?

Gonen

Fang

El-Sheikh

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

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Abstract:Many future Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems may be pervasive SmartLife applications that provide real-time support for users in everyday tasks and situations. Development of such applications will be challenging, but in this position paper we argue that their ongoing maintenance may be even more so.Ontological modelling of the application may help to ease this burden, but maintainers need to understand a system at many levels, from a broad architectural perspective down to the internals of deployed components. Thus we will need consistent models that span the range of views, from business processes through system architecture to maintainable code. We provide an initial example of such a modelling approach and illustrate its application in a semantic browser to aid in software maintenance tasks.

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“…The opposite of recognition is location that finds for a given intension a corresponding extension. Concept location is an important part of software change [2,25]. Before the program change is attempted, the appropriate extension must be found.…”

Section: Concept Trianglementioning

confidence: 99%