An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved significant advancements in technology and research
with the development over several decades, and is widely used in many areas including …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …

Architecture Smells (ASs) are design decisions that can have significant negative effects on
a system's quality attributes such as reusability and testability. ASs are focused on higher …

Architectural smells (AS) are notorious for their long-term impact on the Maintainability and
Evolvability of software systems. The majority of research work has investigated this topic by …

Background. Software quality assurance is essential during software development and
maintenance. Static Analysis Tools (SAT) are widely used for assessing code quality …

A key aspect of technical debt (TD) management is the ability to measure the amount of
principal accumulated in a system. The current literature contains an array of approaches to …

Context. Architecture maintainability smells indicate software quality problems and suggest
necessary architecture refactorings. However, there are numerous names for a single smell …

Many software projects suffer from architecture erosion and architecture technical debt. One
challenge is to identify affected parts and prioritize them for refactoring. Architecture smells …

Software applications and workloads, especially within the domains of Cloud computing and
large-scale AI model training, exert considerable demand on computing resources, thus …