@inbook{8f8eaeed06074a3ca844fcbae5e7a113,
title = "Allowing overlapping boundaries in source code using a search based approach to concept binding",
abstract = "One approach to supporting program comprehension involves binding concepts to source code. Previously proposed approaches to concept binding have enforced nonoverlapping boundaries. However real-world programs may contain overlapping concepts. This paper presents techniques to allow boundary overlap in the binding of concepts to source code. In order to allow boundaries to overlap, the concept binding problem is reformulated as a search problem. It is shown that the search space of overlapping concept bindings is exponentially large, indicating the suitability of sampling-based search algorithms. Hill climbing and genetic algorithms are introduced for sampling the space. The paper reports on experiments that apply these algorithms to 21 COBOL II programs taken from the commercial financial services sector The results show that the genetic algorithm produces significantly better solutions than both the hill climber and random search",
author = "N Gold and M Harman and Z Li and S Kawada",
year = "2006",
language = "English",
isbn = "1063-6773",
series = "PROCEEDINGS - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE",
publisher = "IEEE COMPUTER SOC",
pages = "310 -- 319",
booktitle = "Icsm 2006: 22Nd Ieee International Conference on Software Maintenance, Proceedings",
note = "22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance ; Conference date: 24-09-0006 Through 27-09-0006",
}