Regular Section
Split-Jaccard Distance of Hierarchical Decompositions for Software Architecture
2015 Volume E98.D Issue 3 Pages 712-716
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2015 Volume E98.D Issue 3 Pages 712-716
Most previous approaches on comparing the results for software architecture recovery are designed to handle only flat decompositions. In this paper, we propose a novel distance called Split-Jaccard Distance of Hierarchical Decompositions. It extends the Jaccard coefficient and incorporates the concept of the splits of leaves in a hierarchical decomposition. We analyze the proposed distance and derive its properties, including the lower-bound and the metric space.
