Software maintainability predicts changes or failures that may occur in software after it has
been deployed. Since it deals with the degree to which an application may be understood …

Reverse engineering is used for extracting and understanding software architecture models
from source code when the source code is the only available software product. Software …

Comprehension of the structure of software will facilitate maintaining the software more
efficiently. Clustering software modules, as a reverse engineering technique, is assumed to …

Software remodularization is always a key task in the field of software reengineering. In
recent years, search-based optimization techniques have been considered as an effective …

Maintenance is a critical and costly phase of software lifecycle. Understanding the structure
of software will make it much easier to maintain the software. Clustering the modules of …

One of expensive stages of the software lifecycle is its maintenance. Software maintenance
will be much simpler if its structural models are available. Software module clustering is …

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 …

When the source code of a software is the only product available, program understanding
has a substantial influence on software maintenance costs. The main goal in code …

Context A software system's structure often degrades due to repetitive maintenance. To
make a sustainable evolution of such systems, it becomes mandatory to improve their …

The meta-heuristic search algorithms have been widely applied to solve the various science
and engineering optimization problems. However, the performance of these algorithms is …