Software Reuse - Facts and Myths

I-39: Facts and Myths in IVF Treatment

Many myths are still present today in assisted reproductive techniques and particularly in infertility management. Most of them exist because we do not want to really look at the facts for various reasons. In this lecture we will review 7 of these myths: 1. HP-HMG improves pregnancy rates, 2. HMG prevents progesterone rise in follicular phase, 3. Clinical importance of progesterone rise in foll...

Boosting Passage Retrieval through Reuse in Question Answering

Question Answering (QA) is an emerging important field in Information Retrieval. In a QA system the archive of previous questions asked from the system makes a collection full of useful factual nuggets. This paper makes an initial attempt to investigate the reuse of facts contained in the archive of previous questions to help and gain performance in answering future related factoid questions. I...

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Software Reuse and Safety

This tutorial addresses issues and current practices regarding the important topic of the interaction of software reuse and safety. This topic has become very relevant to modern embedded systems in domains from aerospace to automotive, as new architectures are introduced that encourage the development and use of reusable components. The two sections of the tutorial provide first an introduction...

KOntoR: An Ontology-enabled Approach to Software Reuse

Research on software reuse libraries has extensively dealt with representation and retrieval issues of software artifacts. While representation in terms of metadata is a key issue, most systems neglect the possibilities of leveraging knowledge about the corresponding problem domain. In this paper, we present KOntoR— an ontology-enabled approach to software reuse. We show how background knowledg...