A practical pattern recovery approach based on both structural and behavioral analysis

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 69-87

  Huang, Heyuan ^a   Zhang, Shensheng ^a   Cao, Jian ^a   Duan, Yonghong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Design pattern; Pattern recovery; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PRECISION ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN PATTERN; FORWARD ENGINEERING; PATTERN RECOVERY;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 9644281599     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2003.11.018     Document Type: Article

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