Performance-based software model refactoring in fuzzy contexts

The detection of causes of performance problems in software systems and the identification of refactoring actions that can remove the problems are complex activities (even in small/medium scale systems). It has been demonstrated that software models can nicely support these activities, especially because they enable the introduction of automation in the detection and refactoring steps. In our recent work we have focused on performance antipattern-based detection and refactoring of software models. However performance antipatterns suffer from the numerous thresholds that occur in their representations and whose binding has to be performed before the detection starts (as for many pattern/antipattern categories