Relevancy based semantic interoperation of reuse repositories

Abstract

Software reuse is a promising solution to the software crisis. Reuse repositories are the basic infrastructure for software reuse. During the past decade, various academic, commercial, governmental, and industrial organizations have developed many Internet-enabled reuse repositories to provide access to software components and related resources. It has necessitated semantic interoperation to allow distributed maintenance and management of these repositories while enabling users to efficiently and conveniently access resources from multiple reuse repositories via a single representation view. In this paper, we have proposed an approach to enhancing the semantic interoperability of reuse repositories, called the improved relevancy matching and ranking (IRMR) method, based on analyzing the correlation of terms in representation methods of the repositories. A prototype system, the Virtual Repository supporting Semantic Interoperation (VRSI), is presented to illustrate the application of this approach to support the semantic interoperation of reuse repositories. Experimental results on real world reuse repositories demonstrated significant improvement in terms of searching effectiveness.

Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation for automatic categorization of software

“…SpotWeb [16] is a code search engine based approach that detects hotspots and coldspots in a given framework by mining open-source code on the web. Automated approaches for assessing reuse also exist for software libraries [11,13], reuse repositories [14] and ranking components by their reusability [4]. Unlike LACT, these approaches concentrate on reuse of software components instead of categorization of software systems.…”

A Customizable Running Support Framework for Autonomous Components

“…施方面的建设,如构件库、 构件运行支撑平台等都已经有很多实用的产品(如文献 [8,9] [8] )来支撑自主构件的 运行.在具体实现中,作者通过集成开源规则引擎(Drools [11] )和设计相应的构件规划引擎,以提供自主构件所需 • 能够获取构件的内部状态以及修改自身状态的能力.构件的内部状态可以利用构件的反射机制获得.…”

Automated classification and retrieval of reusable software components

“…Other work involving software reuse and the WWW include (Pan et al, 2004), who improved relevancy matching and ranking to improve candidate searches in Web‐enabled software repositories, and (Eyambe & Suleman, 2004), who discussed a framework for creating digital libraries from distributed components, and thus addressing various limitations of the Open Digital Library project (the Open Digital Library project demonstrates that digital libraries can be built as networks of components rather than monolithic systems).…”