Software architecture is the heart of web-based software systems determining its
components and their connections. These days, fast release and quick delivery of next …

Nowadays, software systems remain useful and competitive; entail the inevitable need to
change over time and to be adapted to new technologies, platforms, and architectures …

Software module clustering is an unsupervised learning method used to cluster software
entities (eg, classes, modules, or files) with similar features. The obtained clusters may be …

Sets of common features are essential assets to be reused in fulfilling specific needs in
software product line methodology. In Requirements Reuse (RR), the extraction of software …

Modeling software systems using complex networks can be an effective technique for
analyzing the complexity of software systems. To enhance the technique, the structure of a …

Existing software clustering techniques tend to ignore prior knowledge from domain experts,
leading to results (suggested big-bang remodularization actions) that can not acceptable to …

The knowledge about the genetic variability of a population is essential to increase the
selection efficiency of promising genotypes to breeding programs. This study evaluated the …

The number of partitions identified in a cluster analysis is traditionally a critical point of the
procedure. There are many solutions available in the literature that researchers can exploit …

Maintenance of existing software requires a large amount of time for comprehending the
source code. The architecture of a software, however, may not be clear to maintainers if up …

Software maintenance is regarded as an activity of high cost. Developing meaningful metrics
to assess the quality characteristics of software has become one of the most effective ways …