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Esmee Maaskant; Katja Holtta-Otto; Pascal Etman

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Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in the incorporation of modularity for the goal of reuse. Modularization can promote reusability by creating groups of components, a module, that as a whole can be reused in second generation systems. This study presents an approach to generate practical clusters of components based on similarities in modularity driver values while taking in account component dependencies and component-to-component constraints. The modularity driver values and constraints are used as an extra input for the Design Structure Matrix tool, enabling designers to base modularization choices on the DSM clustering. This results in an approach to modularize systems for reusability.

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Modularization, Design for Reusability, Design Structure Matrix, Modularity drivers