To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

We show how automated support can be provided for identifying refactoring opportunities,
eg, when an application's design should be refactored and which refactoring (s) in particular …

Software architectures are described by different views which depend upon the concerns of
the respective stakeholders. Far too often, software architectures are not documented …

Authentic descriptions of a software architecture are required as a reliable foundation for any
but trivial changes to a system. Far too often, architecture descriptions of existing systems …

A Logic Meta-Programming Approach to Support the Co-Evolution of Object-Oriented Design
and Implementation Page 1 V R IJE U NIVERSITEIT BR U S S E L S C IE N T IA VINCERE …

Software variants emerge from ad-hoc copying in-the-large with adaptations to a specific
context. As the number of variants increases, maintaining such software variants becomes …

In current-day software development, programmers often use programming patterns to
clarify their intents and to increase the understandability of their programs. Unfortunately …

In this paper, we show how elaborate support for framework-based software evolution can
be provided based on explicit documentation of the hot spots of object-oriented application …

Object-oriented design patterns and high-level refactorings are popular means of
implementing and evolving large object-oriented software systems. Unfortunately, these …

Maintaining the source code of large software systems is hard. One underlying cause is that
existing modularisation mechanisms are inadequate to handle crosscutting concerns. We …