A pattern matching framework for software architecture recovery and restructuring

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 37-47

  Sartipi, Kamran ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a   Mavaddat, Farhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer science; Concrete; Control systems; Data mining; Engines; Optimal matching; Pattern matching; Software architecture; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONCRETES; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; ENGINES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN MATCHING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

BRANCH AND BOUND SEARCH ALGORITHMS; HIGH-LEVEL ABSTRACTION; MATCHING ENGINES; OPTIMAL MATCHING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE RECOVERY; STRUCTURED PATTERNS; TARGET SYSTEMS; VALUED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 24344490916     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2000.852478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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