A Behavioral and Structural Components Retrieval Technique for Software Reuse

Khalifa, H. Ben; Khayati, Oualid; Ghezala, Henda Ben

doi:10.1109/asea.2008.45

Cited by 7 publications

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“…The work desccribed in (Inoue, Yokomori, Yamamoto, Matsushita, & Kusumoto, 2005) proposes a graph-representation model of a software component library, based on analyzing actual usage relations of the components . The approach described in (Khalifa, Khayati, & Ghezala, 2008) combines formal and semi-formal specification to describe behaviour and structure of components.…”

Section: Software Component Discoverymentioning

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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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Section: Software Component 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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“…Merobase 8 is an online tool for finding software components through simple text-based search, lookup capability and API search. The work in [Ben Khalifa et al 2008] presents a structural and behavioral based technique for retrieval of software components, considering their heterogeneity, such as the domain, abstraction level and the underlying technology. [Platzer and Dustdar 2005] investigates the discovery and analysis of Web services using a vector space search engine to index descriptions of existing services.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models

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Model-Driven Engineering relies on collections of models, which are the primary artefacts for software development. To enable knowledge sharing and reuse, models need to be managed within repositories, where they can be retrieved upon users queries. This paper examines two different techniques for indexing and searching model repositories, with a focus on Web development projects encoded in a Domain Specific Language. Keyword-based and content-based search (also known as query-by-example) are contrasted, with respect to the architecture of the system, the processing of models and queries, and the way in which metamodel knowledge can be exploited to improve search. A thorough experimental evaluation is conducted to examine what parameter configurations lead to better accuracy and to offer an insight in what queries are addressed best by each system.

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“…The work in [15] proposes a graph-representation model of a software component library, based on analyzing actual usage relations of the components and propagating a significance score through such links. The approach proposed in [7] combines formal and semi-formal specification to describe behaviour and structure of components, so as to make the retrieval process more precise.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching Repositories of Web Application Models

Bozzon

Brambilla

Fraternali

2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Project repositories are a central asset in software development, as they preserve the technical knowledge gathered in past development activities. However, 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. This paper investigates the use of classical Information Retrieval techniques for easing the discovery of useful information from past projects. Differently from approaches based on textual search over the source code of applications or on querying structured metadata, we propose to index and search the models of applications, which are available in companies applying Model-Driven Engineering practices. We contrast alternative index structures and result presentations, and evaluate a prototype implementation on real-world experimental data.

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A Behavioral and Structural Components Retrieval Technique for Software Reuse

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Ontological Description and Similarity-Based Discovery of Business Process Models

Ontological Description and Similarity-Based Discovery of Business Process Models

Textual and Content-Based Search in Repositories of Web Application Models

Searching Repositories of Web Application Models

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