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This paper applies multi-objective search based software remodularization to the program Kate, showing how this can improve cohesion and coupling, and investigating differences between weighted and unweighted approaches and between equal-size and maximising clusters approaches. We also investigate the effects of considering omnipresent modules. Overall, we provide evidence that search based modularization can benefit Kate developers.
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Paixao, M., Harman, M., Zhang, Y. (2015). Multi-objective Module Clustering for Kate. In: Barros, M., Labiche, Y. (eds) Search-Based Software Engineering. SSBSE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22183-0_24
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