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 …

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages. However, the absence of
explicit support for architectural constructs, such as software components, in the …

Abstract Conventional wisdom on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) suggests that this
software discipline is the key to achieve superior automation, whether it be refactoring …

Many mainstream programming languages lack extensive support for architectural
constructs, such as software components, which limits software developers in employing …

Context: Software systems' modular structure often drifts from the intended design
throughout evolution. To improve the modular structure of a software system, the software …

Measuring and estimating the reusability of software components are important steps toward
finding reusable candidates. Reuse of software components can aid in the reduction of the …

Understanding software architecture is essential to software maintenance. There has been
much effort to derive software architecture views from source code artifacts. Typically, along …

Software clustering is important in program comprehension, and it is applied to architecture
recovery and software visualization to analyze the actual software system structure. The …

Modular software applications are developed based on a software design technique that
emphasizes separating the program's functionality into independent, interchangeable …

Nowadays, there is no consensus and a reference process to support architecture
reconstruction in a guided or systematized way. To deal with this need, this PhD. thesis has …