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Abstract: Modularization is used as one of the stages of reverse engineering to understand a software system. Due to the importance of understanding a software system for development and maintenance, ...

Modularization allows to divide a group of programmers who maintain the entire system into teams dealing with dedicated libraries. The division of the group of programmers into teams is beneficial, ...

In many cases, this is true. However, modularization is not always beneficial. Under certain conditions, it can actually make a system worse. This article discusses when modularization becomes a ...

If the 1980s is an era characterized by the downfall of an American economic model and the rise of a Japanese economic model, then from 1990 onwards is an era in which the Japanese model came apart ...

Abstract: A modular voltage equalizer can be used in a wide variety of applications without changing the module design. However, the modularization of an equalizer topology often involves slow ...