This paper discusses the use of standardized bibliographic metadata sets for the retrieval of software components. Their proven success, and the assumption that software components are a sort of dynamic document, leads to the assumption that it could be effective to adopt bibliographic metadata element sets for resource discovery of software components. Stemming from four sets, viz. the Dublin ...

Extended Abstract This paper describes a standard measuring procedure for software engineering. It is an account of our experience in trying to obtain software engineering experiments that are repeatable and comparable. Measures in software engineering often lack a solid measurement theory basis. Even more, there is the need for a basic standard procedure to extract meanings from these measures...

OptimixJ is a graph rewrite tool that can be embedded easily into the standard software process. Applications and models can be developed in Java or UML and extended by graph rewrite systems. We discuss how OptimixJ solves several problems that arise: the model-ownership problem, the embedded graphs problem, the library adaptation problem, and the target code encapsulation problem. We also show...

A lthough architecture has become a popular term in the computing community, its use is inconsistent, often bearing little resemblance to the concept’s origins in civil engineering. Architecture is used in various contexts to mean the instruction set of a central processor unit, the highest-level software modules in a large software system, or the overall structure of a business’s information t...