@inproceedings{7536ed57123c4d6da2af8bfab5d83f4c,
title = "Empirical study on the interface and feature evolutions of mobile apps",
abstract = "We make an empirical study on App evolution, especially on inter-App interface evolution and inner-App feature evolution, both from externally observable exhibitions of Apps. Interfaces are extracted from .apk files, and statistical methods are used to discover underlying patterns of interface evolution. Furthermore, potential trend on how interface evolutions of Apps result in the evolution of Global inter-App Network (GAN) is observed. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is applied to extract updated features (“topics”) from “What{\textquoteright}s New” of each version to explore the underlying patterns of feature evolution. A set of significant phenomena have been observed from the empirical study.",
keywords = "Feature evolution, Global inter-app network, Interface evolution, Mobile apps",
author = "Youqiang Hao and Zhongjie Wang and Xiaofei Xu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2016 ; Conference date: 10-10-2016 Through 13-10-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0\_45",
language = "英语",
isbn = "9783319462943",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "657--665",
editor = "Samir Tata and Eleni Stroulia and Sami Bhiri and Sheng, \{Quan Z.\}",
booktitle = "Service-Oriented Computing - 14th International Conference, ICSOC 2016, Proceedings",
address = "德国",
}