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A methodology to rank the design patterns on the base of text relevancy

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Several software design patterns have cataloged either with canonical or as variants to solve a recurring design problem. However, novice designers mostly adopt patterns without considering their ground reality and relevance to design problems, which causes to increase the development and maintenance efforts. The existing automated systems to select the design patterns need either high computing effort and time for the formal specification or precise learning through the training of several classifiers with large sample size to select the right design patterns realized on the base of their ground reality. In order to discuss this issue, we propose a method on the base of a supervised learning technique named ‘Learning to Rank’, to rank the design patterns via the text relevancy with the description of the given design problems. Subsequently, we also propose an evaluation model to assess the effectiveness of the proposed method. We evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method in the context of several design pattern collections and relevant design problems. The promising experimental results indicate the applicability of the proposed method as a recommendation system to select the right design pattern(s).

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  1. CU, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shahid Hussain, Mohammad Khalid Sohail, Manzoor Ilahi, Ghufran Ahmad & Muhammad Asim Noor

  2. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jacky Keung

  3. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Arif Ali Khan

  4. CU, Vehari, Pakistan

    Muhammad Rafiq Mufti

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Hussain, S., Keung, J., Sohail, M.K. et al. A methodology to rank the design patterns on the base of text relevancy. Soft Comput 23, 13433–13448 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-03882-y

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