Evaluating energy efficiency of Internet of Things software architecture based on reusable software components

Formalizing Reusable Software Components

There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. Unfortunately, there has been only limited success in actually doing this. We believe that the lack of success stems not from any resistance to the idea, nor from any lack of trying, but rather from the difficulty of choosing an appropriate formalism for represe...

Reusable Software Components

AbstructAn empirical study of methods for representing reusable software components is described. Thirty-five subjects searched for reusable components in a database of UNIX tools using four different representation methods: attribute-value, enumerated, faceted, and keyword. The study used Proteus, a reuse library system that supports multiple representation methods. Searching effectiveness was...

Reusable Software Components

On the retrieval of reusable software components

Starting from the principle of software reusability through formal speciications we suggest a model for the retrieval of reusable components utilizing the search techniques in database management systems. The formal speciication language of software components is ASL. Component speciications will be translated into a speciication written in the knowledge representation language Telos for storag...

Reusable software components for accelerator-based clusters

The emerging accelerator-based heterogeneous clusters, comprising specialized processors such as the IBM Cell and GPUs, have exhibited excellent price to performance ratio as well as high energy-efficiency. However, developing and maintaining software for such systems is fraught with challenges, especially for modern high-performance computing (HPC) applications that can benefit the most from l...