The culture of product design is shifting from case-by-case development to the Knowledge-
Based Engineering (KBE) paradigm facilitating knowledge sharing and reusing among …

Motivation Software is vital for the advancement of biology and medicine. Impact evaluations
of scientific software have primarily emphasized traditional citation metrics of associated …

The cohesion of an object-oriented class refers to the relatedness of its methods and
attributes. Constructors, destructors, and access methods are special types of methods …

The difficulty of software development tasks depends on several factors including the
characteristics of the underlying source-code. These characteristics can be captured and …

Code smells indicate potential symptoms or problems in software due to inefficient design or
incomplete implementation. These problems can affect software quality in the long-term …

Software reuse has proven to be an effective strategy for developers to significantly increase
software quality, reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of software development …

The fractal property has been regarded as a fundamental property of complex networks,
characterizing the self-similarity of a network. Such a property is usually numerically …

Big Data and its uses are widely used in many applications and fields; artificial information,
medical care, business, and much more. Big Data sources are widely distributed and …

Software reuse is an essential practice to increase efficiency and reduce costs in software
production. Software reuse practices range from reusing artifacts, libraries, components …

In recent years, interest in the potential influence of architectural smells on software
maintainability has grown. Yet, empirical evidence directly linking maintainability quality …