Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier
naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions …

Software engineering is an intensively people-oriented activity, yet too little is known about
how designers, maintainers, requirements analysts and all other types of software engineers …

Since modern software systems are large and complex, appropriate abstractions of their
structure are needed to make them more understandable and, thus, easier to maintain …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Software architectures capture the most significant properties and design constraints of
software systems. Thus, modifications to a system that violate its architectural principles can …

Many automated techniques of varying accuracy have been developed to help recover the
architecture of a software system from its implementation. However, rigorously assessing …

As valuable software systems get old, reverse engineering becomes more and more
important to the companies that have to maintain the code. Clustering is a key activity in …

Metaheuristic techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search
have found wide application in most areas of engineering. These techniques have also …

The majority of the algorithms in the software clustering literature utilize structural
information to decompose large software systems. Approaches using other attributes, such …

One of the difficulties in maintaining a large software system is the absence of documented
business domain topics and correlation between these domain topics and source code …