Building an expert system to assist system refactorization

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3810-3816

  Vidal, Santiago A ^a,b   Marcos, Claudia A ^a,c  

^a UNICEN University ^*  (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aspect refactoring; Aspect oriented software development; Expert systems; Interface agents

Indexed keywords

ASPECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ASPECT REFACTORING; ASPECT-ORIENTED; INTERFACE AGENTS; KNOW-HOW; MARKOVIAN; MODULARIZED; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; REFACTORINGS; REFACTORIZATION; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; SOFTWARE MODULARIZATION; SOFTWARE PARADIGM;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80255130659     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.084     Document Type: Article

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