A tool for design pattern detection and software architecture reconstruction

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1306-1324

  Arcelli Fontana, Francesca ^a   Zanoni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data mining techniques; Design pattern detection; Metrics computations; Reverse engineering; Software architecture reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE RECONSTRUCTION; BASIC ELEMENTS; DATA ACCESS; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DESIGN PATTERN DETECTION; DESIGN PATTERNS; ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES; JAVA LIBRARY; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; METRICS COMPUTATIONS; PLUG-INS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODES; TARGET SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; DATA VISUALIZATION; ENGINEERS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78751647663     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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