# Literature notes

Paperbridge was used on 2026-08-29 to search arXiv, Crossref, and OpenAlex for
software visualization, architecture mining, and structural metrics.

The seed is informed by:

- Borowski, Balis, and Orzechowski, “Graph Buddy — an interactive code
  dependency browsing and visualization tool,” VISSOFT 2022,
  DOI 10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00023. Supports interactive, code-proximal
  dependency exploration.
- Savidis and Savaki, “Software Architecture Mining from Source Code with
  Dependency Graph Clustering and Visualization,” 2022,
  DOI 10.5220/0010896800003124. Supports graph-derived architecture views and
  clustering as an architecture-recovery direction.
- Krause, Hansen, and Hasselbring, “Live Visualization of Dynamic Software
  Cities with Heat Map Overlays,” arXiv 2109.14217. Supports the building/city
  metaphor and layering dynamic evidence over static structure.
- Exman and Ohayon, “Software Modularity Coupling Resolution by the Laplacian
  of a Bipartite Dependency Graph,” 2019, DOI 10.5220/0007955802980305.
  Motivates explicit dependency-graph analysis for modularity.
- Di Pompeo and Tucci, “Quality Attributes Optimization of Software
  Architecture: Research Challenges and Directions,” arXiv 2301.07516.
  Reinforces treating architecture quality as multi-objective rather than a
  single universal score.

Design consequence: Brick stores a general graph and exposes metric components.
The visualization metaphor and the health indicator are consumers of evidence,
not replacements for it. No paper above validates Brick's v0.1 weights; those
weights remain explicitly experimental.


## Call resolution (2026-09-22)

A Paperbridge search on 2026-09-22 (arXiv and OpenAlex) informed the C/C++
and Rust resolution work: Murphy and Notkin (TOSEM 1998), Grove et al. (OOPSLA
1997, TOPLAS 2001), Srivastava (LOPLAS 1992), Creager and van Antwerpen (stack
graphs, arXiv:2211.01224), Cai and Zhang (OOPSLA 2023), Li et al. (Rupta,
CC 2024), and LocAgent (ACL 2025). See `cpp-rust-resolution.md` for how each
shaped the design.