Acquiring software semantics for retrieval of software components on the web

While the number of software components increase on the web, finding these components and dynamically integrating the active ones is very difficult. Extending Semantic Web technology to describing these components seams to be a solution. However, the easy acquisition of descriptions for software components is an open issue. We focus on facilitating the acquisition of software semantics. To perform this, we (1) determine a set of resources that contain semantics about software and (2) propose methods to extract these semantics. Finally, to validate the quality of the semantics (3) we will use it to lay the foundations of a semantic search engine for software components on the web.