An experiment in software retrieval

A Software Component Representation Model for Compositional Reuse

“…The approaches reported in [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] require extensive domain analysis, which is a manual, expensive, tedious and error prone process. It also makes these approaches domain specific.…”

“…The construction of the index is automatic that makes the indexing process simple and error free. Moreover, the indexing unit in this model consists of a pair of words instead of a single word as used in the earlier approaches [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. There is an added advantage of using a pair-of-words (the LR in the authors' model) type indexing unit.…”

“…Knowledge-based methods [14][15][16][17] include semantic nets and rule-based systems. Semantic nets consist of a directed graph where the nodes represent the SCs and the arcs represent relationships among them.…”