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Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems III (AOIS 2005)

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As a greater number of software developers make their source code available, there is a need to store such open-source applications in a library and facilitate searching over this digital library. To achieve this, we propose the usage of agents in indexing and querying program source code. This paper describes agent roles in building index files for Java programs and users’ queries based on program structure and design patterns. Precision and recall analysis is then undertaken to evaluate the retrieval performance. We believe that such a digital library will permit better sharing of experience amongst developers and facilitate reuse of code segments.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

    Yuhanis Yusof & Omer F. Rana

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  1. ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp

  2. European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49,, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Paolo Bresciani

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, 2000, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

  4. Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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Yusof, Y., Rana, O.F. (2006). Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries. In: Kolp, M., Bresciani, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems III. AOIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11916291_19

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