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Object-oriented concepts facilitate the reusability as well as the maintainability of existing software. Due to the great amount of existing procedural software, object identification in procedural programs is an important approach. The object recovery process for this identification of objects within procedural programs presents several uncertainties and ambiguities, which have to be resolved by acquisition of additional knowledge from the application domain and a human expert. In this paper we show the basic concepts of the object recovery process and describe those uncertainties and ambiguities, as well as our way of managing them in order to identify objects in procedural programs.
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Gall, H., Klösch, R. (1995). Managing uncertainty in an object recovery process. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94. IPMU 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035983
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