An Approach to Intelligent Software Library Management

Although very important solely supporting the retrieval of single components from a software library is not enough to make e orts towards software reuse a success The DaCapo software library system presented in this paper supports the automatic construction of software from existing com ponents according to a possibly incomplete speci cation Our method adds a global view to conventional single com ponent retrieval because taxonomic classi cation interface constraints and the relative order of components together form the selection condition for an entire sequence of com ponents The system is built on top of a deductive database system It can easily be extended to integrate most soft ware library management strategies found in the literature