Modelling and simulation are widely used methods in design and other engineering tasks. Providing libraries of reusable model fragments is a promising way of supporting engineering modelling. The paper discusses means of structuring such libraries in a generic and reusable way. Model content facts can be organized on the basis of the ontologies that are generally important in physical systems e...

Software reuse has been claimed to be one of the most promising approaches to enhance programmer productivity and software quality. One of the problems to be addresses to achieve high software reuse is organizing databases of software experience, in which information on software products and processes is stored and organized to enhance reuse. The Reuse Description Formalism (RDF) is a generaliz...

When talking about software reuse, a problem that very quickly becomes apparent is “what is being used?”. In this paper, we introduce the concept of assembly, a unit of reusable software. This allows us to more sensibly compare different strategies for software reuse. We believe this concept is scalable to all levels, from intra-program reuse to inter-program reuse. In particular, it allows us ...

Object-oriented programming has been widely acclaimed as a technology that will support the creation of reusable software, particularly because of the “inheritance” facility. However, the limited practical impact has not justified the acclaim. We believe this lack of success is due not any particular shortcoming in inheritance, but to widespread misunderstanding of the way the technology suppor...

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We have developed a highly flexible module to evaluate and access the reusability of software components. The purpose of this model is to do pattern recognition by discovering supervised features which can help us to measure the intangible aspects of software components in terms of reusability. There were several function based applications which were given due diligence for identifying their v...

As industry and academia embrace component and objectbased design models, programming languages, technologies, and tools, they are outpacing our ability to formally define models and frameworks supporting organization and domain specific reuse. For software engineers to accurately assess potential and actual reuse of software artifacts, we must transition from ad-hoc reuse to a evaluative parad...

The DNER&LO study gathered data about 27 elearning projects, mapping the categories of content being produced, and approaches to reusability and interoperability. Eighteen were chosen for closer study and evaluation, based on availability of content, and on covering a wide range of content categories. Appropriate reusability evaluation criteria were developed specifically for the study, in four...

Due to rapid development in software industry, it was necessary to reduce time and efforts in the software development process. Software Reusability is an important measure that can be applied to improve software development and software quality. Reusability reduces time, effort, errors, and hence the overall cost of the development process. Reusability prediction models are established in the ...

The design of efficient quantum circuits is an important issue in quantum computing. It is in general a formidable task to find a highly optimized quantum circuit for a given unitary matrix. We propose a quantum circuit design method that has the following unique feature: It allows to construct efficient quantum circuits in a systematic way by reusing and combining a set of highly optimized qua...