Object Identification

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Object Identification is the search for candidate classes in a (procedural) LegacySystem

See, for example, the following papers and their references:

Maarit Haarsu, Re-engineering Legacy Software through Language Conversion. PhD^? Thesis, University of Tampere, 2000. http://acta.uta.fi/pdf/951-44-4899-5.pdf
IdentifyingObjectsUsingClusterAndConceptAnalysis
A. Cimitile, A. De Lucia, G. A. Di Lucca, and A.R. Fasolino. Identifying objects in legacy systems using design metrics. JournalOfSystemsAndSoftware 44, 3 (1999), 199–211.
T. Wiggerts, H. Bosma, and E. Fielt. Scenarios for the identification of objects in LegacySystems. In 4th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering WCRE, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 24–32, 1997.
G. Canfora, A. Cimitile, and M. Munro. An improved algorithm for identifying objects in code. Software Practice and Experience 26, 1 (1996), 25–48.
C. L. Ong and W. T. Tsai. Class and object extraction from imperative code. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (March–April 1993), 58–68.
S. S. Liu and N. Wilde. Identifying objects in a conventional procedural language: An example of data DesignRecovery. In InternationalConferenceonSoftwareMaintenance; ICSM’90 (1990), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 266–271.

See also the references of Encapsulation_and_Finding_Objects_in_Legacy_Code in the ReengineeringBibliography: