Context The architectures of existing software systems generally lack documentation or have
often drifted from their initial design due to repetitive maintenance operations. To evolve …

Internet of Things (IoT) software is notoriously complex, conventionally comprising multiple
tiers. Traditionally an IoT developer must use multiple programming languages and ensure …

Architectural reconstruction is a reverse engineering activity aiming at recovering the
missing decisions on a system. It can help identify the components, within a legacy software …

Recovering the architecture of existing software systems remains a challenge and an active
research field in software engineering. In this paper, we propose an approach to recover the …

Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the utilization of every software system
according to user satisfaction. In the initial stage of development, the software architecture …

Mobile applications are software systems that are highly used by all modern people; a vast
majority of those are intricate systems. Due to their increase in complexity, the architectural …

Mobile applications are one of the most common software projects written nowadays. The
software architectures used for building those type of products heavily impacts their lifecycle …

In software architecting process, architects use architectural patterns as reusable
architectural knowledge for architectural synthesis. However, it has been observed that the …

Software architecture recovery is a bottom-up process that aims at building high-level views
that support the understanding of existing software applications. Many approaches have …

In the last few years, we have seen an increase in the number of mobile applications and
their usage. The architectural pattern and correctness represent a major factor in the …