Beyond uniformity and independence: analysis of R-trees using the concept of fractal dimension
PODS '94 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Efficient identification of Web communities
Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Component rank: relative significance rank for software component search
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Linked
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Workflow mining: a survey of issues and approaches
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Scale-free geometry in OO programs
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive complex enterprises
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
Mining frequent instances on workflows
PAKDD'03 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
Assieme: finding and leveraging implicit references in a web search interface for programmers
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Sourcerer: mining and searching internet-scale software repositories
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
A social network based study of software team dynamics
Proceedings of the 3rd India software engineering conference
Evolution of developer collaboration on the jazz platform: a study of a large scale agile project
Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference
Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Portfolio: a search engine for finding functions and their usages
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Identifying thresholds for object-oriented software metrics
Journal of Systems and Software
Searching connected API subgraph via text phrases
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Language independent framework for static code analysis
Proceedings of the 6th Balkan Conference in Informatics
Portfolio: Searching for relevant functions and their usages in millions of lines of code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - Testing, debugging, and error handling, formal methods, lifecycle concerns, evolution and maintenance
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Several works in literature have analyzed the link structure of programs in relation with software engineering: it has been observed that the programming standards caused small-world networks to emerge among classes in object-oriented programming. The need for coherent design and the coding conventions introduce regular patterns in the link structure of code.In this work, we study the social network naturally emerging from unrelated software projects. We studied the links present among Java classes coming from different contexts. In this case, any observable patterns come from social behaviors, rather than software engineering practices.In our analysis, we could observe a regular social network, organized according to a power-law distribution that is typical, for instance, of links among Web pages. We give a positive value to class links, which we consider a sign of relevance and acceptance. Out of this, we propose a way of ranking classes, and we present our prototype search engine for Java classes.