Software Module Clustering as a Multi-Objective Search Problem

摘要: Software module clustering is the problem of automatically organizing software units into modules to improve program structure. There has been a great deal recent interest in search-based formulations this which boundaries are identified by automated search, guided fitness function that captures twin objectives high cohesion and low coupling single-objective function. This paper introduces two novel multi-objective problem, several different (including coupling) represented separately. In order evaluate effectiveness approach, set experiments was performed on 17 real-world problems. The results empirical study provide strong evidence support claim approach produces significantly better solutions than existing approach.