Multiple-View User Modeling in Software Reuse

Structural view To understand a software component with this view, the user model need represent user's knowledge of the computer language's syntax. Typically, the component is expressed as an abstract syntax tree. The vocabularies used in this view are based on syntactic grammar (data structure etc.) For example, the structural description for the software component stack will be either a linked list or an array. The retrieval mechanism is strongly related to the syntactic pattern recognition (Gonzalez & Thomason 1978). Structural decomposition is typically using parser to make a transition from source code to basic structural representation blocks (statements, procedures etc.) We propose a multiple-view user modeling to provide a basis for enabling the user to choose the most appropriate user model to be used in a specific software reuse process. The possibility of integrating with several different user view models can further increase user conceptualization capabilities. This approach is then concretely experimented in an advice prototype with the proposed multiple-view user model for using a software reuse library system.