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Context. The most used development framework for robotics software is ROS2. ROS2 architectures are highly complex, with thousands of components communicating in a decentralized fashion. Goal. We aim to evaluate how LLMs can assist in the…

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Establishing precise traceability between embedded systems datasheets and their corresponding code implementations remains a fundamental challenge in systems engineering, particularly for low-level software where manual mapping between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Vedant Nipane , Pulkit Agrawal , Amit Singh

Hierarchical Multiscale LSTM (Chung et al., 2016a) is a state-of-the-art language model that learns interpretable structure from character-level input. Such models can provide fertile ground for (cognitive) computational linguistics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ákos Kádár , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Grzegorz Chrupała , Afra Alishahi

Software architecture often consists of interconnected components dispersed across source code and other development artifacts, making visualization difficult without costly additional documentation. Although some tools can automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Filipe F. Correia , Ricardo Ferreira , Paulo G. G Queiroz , Henrique Nunes , Matilde Barra , Duarte Figueiredo

Recovering accurate architecture from large-scale legacy software is hindered by architectural drift, missing relations, and the limited context of Large Language Models (LLMs). We present ArchAgent, a scalable agent-based framework that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rusheng Pan , Bingcheng Mao , Tianyi Ma , Zhenhua Ling

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automating software engineering tasks. Generating software architecture designs from requirement documents is a crucial step in software development. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Minxiao Li , Shuying Yan , Li Zhang , Yang Liu , Fang Liu

This paper presents a novel ontology-driven software engineering approach for the development of industrial robotics control software. It introduces the ReApp architecture that synthesizes model-driven engineering with semantic technologies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Stefan Zander , Georg Heppner , Georg Neugschwandtner , Ramez Awad , Marc Essinger , Nadia Ahmed

Cross-organizational collaboration in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) faces many challenges in achieving semantic alignment across independently developed system models. SysML v2 introduces enhanced structural modularity and formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zirui Li , Stephan Husung , Haoze Wang

LLM-based agents are becoming central to software engineering tasks, yet evaluating them remains fragmented and largely model-centric. Existing studies overlook how architectural components, such as planners, memory, and tool routers, shape…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Débora Souza , Patrícia Machado

It is expected that in the near future, AI software development assistants will play an important role in the software industry. However, current software development assistants tend to be unreliable, often producing incorrect, unsafe, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Daniel Maninger , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

Ad hoc dataset search requires matching underspecified natural-language queries against sparse, heterogeneous metadata records, a task where typical lexical or dense retrieval alone falls short. We reposition dataset search as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Riccardo Terrenzi , Phongsakon Mark Konrad , Tim Lukas Adam , Serkan Ayvaz

The necessity of an explicit architecture description has been continuously emphasized to communicate the system functionality and for system maintenance activities. This paper presents an approach to extract architecture descriptions using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Sanjay Thakare , Arvind W Kiwelekar

Architectural reconstruction is a reverse engineering activity aiming at recovering the missing decisions on a system. It can help identify the components, within a legacy software application, according to the application's architectural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Alvine B. Belle , Ghizlane El Boussaidi , Timothy C. Lethbridge , Segla Kpodjedo , Hafedh Mili , Andres Paz

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code generation, they often struggle with the deep, long-horizon reasoning required for complex software engineering. We attribute this limitation to the nature of…

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been used to empower autonomous agents in engineering, significantly improving automation and efficiency in labor-intensive workflows. However, their potential remains underexplored in structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ziheng Geng , Jiachen Liu , Ran Cao , Lu Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Minghui Cheng

Designing effective software architectures is a complex, iterative process that traditionally relies on expert judgment. This paper proposes an approach for Large Language Model (LLM)-assisted software architecture design using the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Humberto Cervantes , Rick Kazman , Yuanfang Cai

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown the promise to significantly accelerate the workflow by automating structural modeling and analysis. However, existing studies primarily focus on enabling LLMs to operate a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziheng Geng , Jiachen Liu , Ian Franklin , Ran Cao , Dan M. Frangopol , Minghui Cheng

Computer systems are so complex, so they are usually designed and analyzed in terms of layers of abstraction. Complexity is still a challenge facing logical reasoning tools that are used to find software design flaws and implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ramy Shahin

This paper formalises the literature on emerging design patterns and paradigms for Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled multi-agent systems (MAS), evaluating their practical utility across various domains. We define key architectural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Harri Renney , Maxim N Nethercott , Nathan Renney , Peter Hayes
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