One of Software Engineering’s main goals is to build complex applications in a simple way. For that, software components must be described by its functional and non-functional properties. Then, the problem is to know which component satisfies a specific need in a specific composition context, during software conception or maintenance. We state that this is a substitution problem in any of the t...

Automated text analysis tools such as Coh-Metrix and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) provides overwhelming indices for text analysis, so fewer underlying dimensions are required. This paper developed an underlying component model for text analysis. The component model was developed from large English and Chinese corpora in terms of results from Coh-Metrix, and English and Chinese Lingu...

Advances in component-oriented software development research have led, among others, to the birth of a large number of component models, which has caused difficulties to the software developers in selecting the suitable component models to be used. To overcome the difficulties, a framework for component model selection is proposed in this study. The framework allows software developer to specif...