A New Approach to Data Mining for Software Design
Walid Taha, Scott A. Crosby, Kedar N. Swadi · 2004
as a new approach to managing large software systems. ESDM is concerned with automatically extracting a program generator capable of exactly reconstructing the full code base. To illustrate the potential effectiveness of this approach, we propose, implement, and test a basic algorithm extracting such generators. Experimental results on various benchmarks (including the Linux kernel) are encouraging.