Source Code Modularization

Introduction.- Proximity of Software Artefacts.- Hierarchical and Partitional Modularization Algorithms.- Search-Based Software Modularization.- Algebraically-Based Software Modularization.- Techniques for the Evaluation of Software Modularizations.- Software Quality Attributes and Modularization.- References.- Index.

Ayaz Isazadeh is Professor and the founding member of the Department of Computer Science, University of Tabriz, Iran. His research interests include software engineering, software architecture, and recently, software structural evolution, with over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as the chair and honorary chair of numerous national and international conferences. Ayaz received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, in 1978, and Ph.D. degree in Computing and Information Science from Queen's University, Canada, in 1996. Before returning to graduate school in 1992, he worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories for over 8 years on various software systems development.

Habib Izadkhah is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tabriz, Iran. His research interests include software engineering, software architecture, reverse engineering, and organic software. More recently he has been working on the application of reverse engineering and modularization to the extract of software structure for large scale and multi programming languages source code. He contributed to various research projects, co-authored a number of research papers in international conferences, workshops and journals, and also has written five books.

Islam Elgedawy is Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus. His research interests include the areas of service-oriented computing, organic computing, and software engineering. More recently he has been working on designing and building organic composite web services, where different models for machine consciousness and digital brains are incorporated. He led and contributed to various research projects, and co-authored a number of research papers in international conferences, workshops and journals, and he also has a growing