Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Reusing software components (e.g. classes or modules) improves software quality and developer’s productivity. Unfortunately, developers may miss many reusing opportunities since...
The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...
Most design recovery approaches start from analysing source code. Nonetheless, it is very difficult to get adequate design information only depending on source code. Additional av...
The software architecture of a system has influences against various software characteristics of the system such as efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and etc.. For support...