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A component mining approach to incubate Grid services in object-oriented legacy systems

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This paper describes an approach for Grid service component mining in object-oriented legacy systems, applying software clustering, architecture recovery, program slicing and wrapping techniques to decompose a legacy system, analyse the concerned components and integrate them into a Grid environment. The resulting components with core legacy code function in a Grid service framework.

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Jian-Zhi Li received his BEng in Electrical and Electronic engineering from the Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China, in 2003. Since 2003, he has been a research student in the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group of the Software Technology Research Laboratory, School of Computing in De Montfort University. His research interests include software evolution, web-based systems and distributed computing.

Zhuo-Peng Zhang received his BSc in Computer Science (1999) and his MSc. on Computer System Architecture (2002) from the Department of Computer Science in Jilin University, China. He belongs to the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group of the Software Technology Research Laboratory, School of Computing in De Montfort University. His research interests include software maintenance, reverse engineering, interests and software reengineering.

Bing Qiao received his BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1998 and 2001. He is a research student in the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group of the Software Technology Research Laboratory, School of Computing in De Montfort University. He has published a number of research papers in IEEE sponsored Conferences and contributed to book chapters in the area of Web/Internet development and evolution.

Hong-Ji Yang is a Professor at the Software Technology Research Laboratory, School of Computing, De Montfort University, England and leads the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group. His general research interests include Software Engineering and Pervasive Computing. He served as a Program Co-Chair at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 1999 (ICSM’99) and the Program Chair at IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference 2002 (COMPSAC’02).

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Li, JZ., Zhang, ZP., Qiao, B. et al. A component mining approach to incubate Grid services in object-oriented legacy systems. Int J Automat Comput 3, 47–55 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-006-0047-3

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