Software Cinema

Recently, I am working on a small Lab. project about a novel approach for component storage and retrieval to assist component reuse in CBSD. In the domain analysis phase, some component modeling approaches were surveyed and compared. They were organized (ordered by publication year) in following table for anyone interested.

Works	Modeling Approach	Modeling Target	Classification Base	Retrieval Base
[Ostertag1992]	Graph-based	Functional Property / Component Feature	AI-based / Component Feature ( Feature Distance )
[Frakes1994] ( Survey Paper )	Keyword Indexing	Component Characteristics	Controlled Vocabulary / Uncontrolled Vocabulary	Keyword/ Hypertext
[Zaremski1995]	Signature-based	Function Types / User-defined Types	Signature Matching	Signature(Function Types/ User-defined Types)
[Zaremski1997]	Specification-based	Component Behavior	Specification Matching
[Mili1997]	Specification-based	Functional Property / Component Feature	Functional Property / Component Feature	Specification
[Henninger1997]	Text-based / Keyword Indexing	Component Characteristics	Predefined Categories / User-defined Categories	Keyword
[Seacord1998]	Text-based	Component Interface	Component Interface	Content-based Keyword
[Damiani1999]	Context-based Description	Component Characteristics	Component Behavioral Characteristics
[Inverardi2000]	Context-based	Component Behavior / Component Assumption	Component Behavior
[Plasil2002]	Text-based	Component Interface	Component Behavior/ Component Interface
[Chatzigeorgiou2003]	Graph-based	Message Exchange ( Component Function Call )	Component Quality
[Vitharana2003]	Knowledge-based	Component Structural Characteristics / Component Functionality / Business Rules/ Component Role in Use	Abstraction Hierarchy / Component Role in Use	The Use of Component
[Inoue2005]	Graph-based / Text-based	Component Association	Component Ranking / Content-based Similarity	Content-based Keyword

It amazed me that the graph-based approach had been applied since 1992, although the approach in [Ostertag1992] was far from similar with recent researches.Most of them are functionality-based classification, only very few associated with non-funcitionall qualities. The knowledge-based approach seems to be an interesting direction based on these previous influential functionality-based approaches.

References

1. [Seacord1998] R. C. Seacord, S. A. Hissam, and K. C. Wallnau, "Agora : A Search Engine for Software Components," IEEE Internet Computing, vol.6, no.2, pp.62-70, 1998
2. [Chatzigeorgiou2003] A. Chatzigeorgiou, "Mathematical Assessment of Object-Oriented Design Quality," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.29, No.11, pp.1050-1053, Nov. 2003
3. [Plasil2002] F. Plasil and S. Visnovsky, "Behavior Protocols for Software Components," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.28, No.11, pp.1056-1076, Nov. 2002
4. [Inverardi2000] P. Inverardi, A. L. Wolf, and D. Yankelevich, "Static Checking of System Behaviors Using Derived Component Assumptions," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.9, no.3, pp.239-272, July 2000
5. [Zaremski1997] A. M. Zaremski and J. M. Wing, "Specification Matching of Software Components," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.6, no.4, pp.333-369, Oct. 1997
6. [Zaremski1995] A. M. Zaremski and J. M. Wing, "Signature Matching: A Tool for Using Software Libraries," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.4, no.2, pp.146-170, April 1995
7. [Mili1997] R. Mili, A. Mili, and R. T. Mittermeir, "Storing and Retrieving Software Components: A Refinement Based System," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.23, No.7, pp.445-460, July 1997
8. [Inoue2005] K. Inoue, R. Yokomori, T. Yamamoto, M. Matsushita, and S. Kusumoto, "Ranking Significance of Software Components based on Use Relations," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.31, No.3, pp.213-225, March 2005
9. [Damiani1999] E. Damiani, M. G. Fugini, and C. Bellettini, "Corrigenda: A Hierarchy-Aware Approach to Faceted Classification of Object-Oriented Components," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.8, no.4, pp.425-472, Oct. 1999
10. [Ostertag1992] E. Ostertag, J. Hendler, R. P. Díaz, and C. Braun, "Computing Similarity in a Reuse Library System: An AI-Based Approach," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.1, no.3, pp.205-228, July 1992
11. [Henninger1997] S. Henninger, "An Evolutionary Approach to Constructing Effective Software Reuse Repository," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol.6, no.2, pp.111-140, April 1997
12. [Frakes1994] W. B. Frakes and T. P. Pole, "An Empirical Study of Representation Models for Reusable Software Components," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.20, no.8, pp.617-630, August 1994
13. [Vitharana2003] P. Vitharana, F. M. Zahedi, and H. Jain, "Knowledge-Based Repository Scheme for Storing and Retrieving Business Components: A Theoretical Design and Empirical Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol.29, no.7, pp.649-664, July 2003