Abstract:Abstract. In component-based software development, the mechanism by which the software components which best satisfy a user's query are retrieved is indispensable. However, conventional retrieval methods cannot evaluate the total characteristics of a component, because they consider a single aspect of the component or require an additional description. In this paper, we propose a new distance metric, "directed replaceability distance" (DRD), which represents how different two components are in detail from the … Show more
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