A framework for software architecture refactoring using model transformations and semantic annotations

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 135-144

  Ivkovic, Igor ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Model transformations; Qualitydriven re engineering; Software architecture refactoring; Software evolution; UML profiles

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; APPLIED (CO); ARCHITECTURE MODELING; CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURES; EUROPEAN; EVOLUTION (CO); IMPROVED MAINTAINABILITY; LIFE CYCLE (LC); METRICS (CO); MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI); REFACTORING; REFACTORINGS; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM QUALITY; UML 2.0;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 38149018766     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2006.3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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