This paper describes the classification mechanism of ROSA, a software reuse system based on the processing of the natural language descriptions of software artifacts. The system supports the automatic indexing of components by acquiring lexical, syntactic and semantic information from software descriptions. Major goals of the approach are cost-effectiveness and retrieval precision. Some results...

Object-oriented frameworks promise higher productivity and shorter time-to-market for the development of objectoriented applications. These goals are achieved through design and code reuse. While many projects show that these promises can be met, failed projects also show that they are not always easy to reach. This dissertation addresses three pertinent technical problems of designing, learnin...

Researchers have been interested in exploring the regularities and modularity of the problem space in genetic programming (GP) with the aim of decomposing the original problem into several smaller subproblems. The main motivation is to allow GP to deal with more complex problems. Most previous works on modularity in GP emphasise the structure of modules used to encapsulate code and/or promote c...

We present our approach to defining similarity between software artifacts and discuss its potential exploitation in software reuse by analogy. We first establish properties of similarity which support its role in retrieving and mapping software descriptions. Then we develop a systematic basis for comparison within a fairly general conceptual modelling framework, whereby comparable elements of t...

Much published research on data integration considers only a “one shot” effort to produce an integrated schema or a multidatabase query. This paper examines a more complex environment. Our clients CBST~ out multiple integration efforts, producing multiple kinds of integrated systems that involve overlapping subsets of their component databases. Metadata is costly to collect and maintain, so one...

Over the past several years, a number of techniques have been developed to address various issues involving software reuse, such as component classification, retrieval, and integration. However, it is not adequate to only have reuse techniques that address reuse issues separately. Instead, a seamless integration of these reuse techniques is critical to achieve effective reuse. In this paper, we...

Although software reuse repository systems have been an active research area for more than a decade, one important aspect has not been given enough attention: If software developers make no attempt to reuse, repository systems offer no help and reuse will not happen. Active information delivery, which presents information without being given explicit queries can motivate software developers to ...

ÐThis paper reports on an empirical research based on two software products. The research goal is to ascertain the impact of the adoption of a reuse policy on customer satisfaction. The results show that when a systematic reuse policy is implemented, such as the adoption of a domain specific library, 1) reuse is significantly positively correlated with customer satisfaction and 2) there is a si...

At present, serveral feature meta-models have been come up with. However, they can’t meet the requirements of dynamic Internet environment or software reuse. This paper proposes a feature meta-model based on ontology as well as its formal description. Meanwhile, FTM (Flexible Transaction Model) mechanism is considered. In particular, it is adaptable to the changes in dynamic environment and can...

Many approaches such as component technologies have been invented in order to support software reuse. Based on these technologies a large variety of techniques have been introduced to connect components. However, there is little experience concerning the validation of component systems. We know how to plug components together, but we do need ways to check whether that works. In this paper we in...