The integration of information retrieval techniques within a software reuse environment

Gibb, Forbes; McCartan, C.; O'Donnell, R.; Sweeney, Nina E.; Leon, Ruben

doi:10.1177/016555150002600402

Cited by 21 publications

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“…“Those components that have already been tested provide higher guarantees of robustness and reliability in any future implementation, and 2. Component reuse should lead to faster development times and lower costs” (Gibb, McCartan, O'Donnell, Sweeney, & Leon, , p. 212). With the increasing demands for software development and the inability of programmers to keep up, software reuse is a practice that can reduce development time and lead to increased stability of a system (Yao et al., ).…”

Section: Software Reusementioning

confidence: 99%

Fuzzy retrieval for software reuse

Colvin

Kraft

2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Finding software for reuse is a problem that programmers face. To reuse code that has been proven to work can increase any programmer's productivity, benefit corporate productivity, and also increase the stability of software programs. This paper shows that fuzzy retrieval has an improved retrieval performance over typical Boolean retrieval. Various methods of fuzzy information retrieval implementation and their use for software reuse will be examined. A deeper explanation of the fundamentals of designing a fuzzy information retrieval system for software reuse is presented. Future research options and necessary data storage systems are explored.

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Section: Software Reusementioning

confidence: 99%

Fuzzy retrieval for software reuse

Colvin

Kraft

2015

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“…Some approaches exist that address the problem of model search for UML projects. Some early works based on XML documents for indexing (Gibb, McCartan, O'Donnell, & Sweeney, 2000). The work describes in (Gomes, Pereira, Seco, Carreiro, & Bento1, 2004) offers model retrieval facilities of artifacts stored in a central knowledge base and classified with WordNet terms.…”

Section: Software Model Discoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontological Description and Similarity-Based Discovery of Business Process Models

Belhajjame

Brambilla

2011

International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design

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Project repositories are a central asset in software development, as they preserve the knowledge gathered in past development activities. Locating relevant information in a vast project repository is problematic, because it requires manually tagging projects with accurate metadata, an activity which is time consuming and prone to errors and omissions. Just like any other artifact or web service, business processes can be stored in repositories to be shared and used by third parties, e.g., as building blocks for constructing new business processes. The success of such a paradigm depends partly on the availability of effective search tools to locate business processes that are relevant to the user purposes. A handful of researchers have investigated the problem of business process discovery using as input syntactical and structural information that describes business processes. This work explores an additional source of information encoded in the form of annotations that semantically describe business processes. Business processes can be semantically described using the so called abstract business processes. These are designated by concepts from an ontology which additionally captures their relationships. This ontology can be built in an automatic fashion from a collection of (concrete) business processes, and this work illustrates how it can be refined by domain experts and used in the discovery of business processes, with the purpose of reuse and increase in design productivity

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“…Gibb et al [1] describe the development of the EU's AUTOSOFT, an information retrieval model for the indexing, storage and retrieval of documents created in eXtensible Markup Language (XML), applied to highlevel software reuse; it considers analysis, design and source code documents. Lee et al [3] use content, structural and semantic searches to retrieve objectoriented frameworks (not components) using an XML meta-model, but this requires a large investment and does not grow out of an existing standard.…”

Section: Software Retrieval Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Standard Metadata Applied to Software Retrieval

González

Meer

2004

Journal of Information Science

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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 Core, EAD, ISAD(G) and MARC, a metadata element set for software components was constructed. The resulting set, an extended Dublin Core set for software components (XDC-SC), implemented in XML, can be used for component retrieval and thus supports software reuse. A first test was performed with components of the BETADE research group. It demonstrates that the retrieval of software can be addressed in this way, XDC-SC is useful as a source of metadata for software components. XDC-SC could serve as a basis for a standard.

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The integration of information retrieval techniques within a software reuse environment

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Fuzzy retrieval for software reuse

Fuzzy retrieval for software reuse

Ontological Description and Similarity-Based Discovery of Business Process Models

Standard Metadata Applied to Software Retrieval

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