The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

The class hierarchy is an important aspect of object-oriented software development. Design
and maintenance of such a hierarchy is a difficult task that is often accomplished without any …

Software engineers often need to identify and correct design defects, ie, recurring design
problems that hinder development and maintenance by making programs harder to …

This chapter addresses the problem of platform migration of large business applications, that
is, complex software systems built around a database and comprising thousands of …

Data-intensive software systems are generally made of a database and a collection of
application programs in strong interaction with the former. They constitute critical assets in …

We propose an approach for component candidate identification as a first step towards the
extraction of component-based architectures from object-oriented programs. Our approach …

Abstract Knowledge map is an important and effective instrument for enterprise knowledge
management. A large number of unordered knowledge resources in the enterprises bring …

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) provides an important approach in software reengineering
for software understanding, design anomalies detection and correction. However, FCA …

Object-oriented software may show signs of procedural thinking because of lack of design or
due to design erosion over a period of time. We refer to such a software as procedural object …

Often, and certainly in the early stages of a design, the knowledge about delays is imprecise.
Stochastic programming is not an adequate means to account for this imprecision. Not only …