DocumentCode
2690540
Title
The Orphan Adoption problem in architecture maintenance
Author
Tzerpos, Vassilios ; Holt, R.C.
Author_Institution
Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
fYear
1997
fDate
6-8 Oct 1997
Firstpage
76
Lastpage
82
Abstract
A lot of research time has been devoted to finding a solution to the problem of automatic clustering, especially in the field of reverse engineering, where decomposing a legacy system to subsystems could be the key to understanding it. Maintaining the obtained structure as a system evolves, however, is a problem that has attracted much less attention. We present the Orphan Adoption problem in architecture maintenance, and propose an algorithm to solve it. We also present case studies that validate the usefulness of our algorithm
Keywords
computer aided software engineering; resource allocation; reverse engineering; software maintenance; Orphan Adoption problem; architecture maintenance; automatic clustering; case studies; legacy system; reverse engineering; Clustering algorithms; Cognitive science; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Reverse engineering; Software algorithms; Software architecture; Software engineering; Software systems; Software tools;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reverse Engineering, 1997. Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on
Conference_Location
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8162-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCRE.1997.624578
Filename
624578
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