Title
Automated framework for classification and selection of software design patterns.
Abstract
Though, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Ontology, and Text categorization approaches have been used to automate the classification and selection of design pattern(s). However, there are certain issues such as time and effort for formal specification of new patterns, system context-awareness, and lack of knowledge which needs to be addressed. We propose a framework (i.e. Three-phase method) to discuss these issues, which can aid novice developers to organize and select the correct design pattern(s) for a given design problem in a systematic way. Subsequently, we propose an evaluation model to gauge the efficacy of the proposed framework via certain unsupervised learning techniques. We performed three case studies to describe the working procedure of the proposed framework in the context of three widely used design pattern catalogs and 103 design problems. We find the significant results of Fuzzy c-means and Partition Around Medoids (PAM) as compared to other unsupervised learning techniques. The promising results encourage the applicability of the proposed framework in terms of design patterns organization and selection with respect to a given design problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.asoc.2018.10.049
Applied Soft Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Design patterns,Design problems,Unsupervised learning,Text categorization,Feature selection,Supervised learning
Software design,Feature selection,Unified Modeling Language,Software design pattern,Formal specification,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics,Design pattern,Medoid
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
75
1568-4946
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
24
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shahid Hussain118942.08
Jacky Keung257135.29
Mohammad Khalid Sohail300.68
Arif Ali Khan44717.15
M. Ilahi55710.91