This paper presents a mesh quality metric for hexahedral and wedge elements. A series of studies was carried out to relate the proposed metric with the solution errors. During the studies, the metric was also compared with the aspect ratio, the warping factor and the control number. The results show that the metric can be used to identify invalid as well as potential poor quality elements, whic...

There are many good reasons why organizations should perform software architecture reconstructions. However, few organizations are willing to pay for the effort. Software architecture reconstruction must be viewed not as an effort on its own but as a contribution in a broader technical context, such as the streamlining of products into a product line or the modernization of systems that hit the...

Over the last decade, several authors have studied the maintainability of software architectures. In particular; the assessment of maintainability has received attention. However; even when one has a quantitative assessment of the maintainability of a software architecture, one still does not have any indication of the optimality of the software architecture with respect to this quality attribu...