Automatically composing reusable software components for mobile devices

Formalizing Reusable Software Components

There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. Unfortunately, there has been only limited success in actually doing this. We believe that the lack of success stems not from any resistance to the idea, nor from any lack of trying, but rather from the difficulty of choosing an appropriate formalism for represe...

Reusable Software Components

AbstructAn empirical study of methods for representing reusable software components is described. Thirty-five subjects searched for reusable components in a database of UNIX tools using four different representation methods: attribute-value, enumerated, faceted, and keyword. The study used Proteus, a reuse library system that supports multiple representation methods. Searching effectiveness was...

Reusable Software Components

Programming Languages for Reusable Software Components Programming Languages for Reusable Software Components

Programming languages ooer a variety of constructs to support code reuse. For example , functional languages provide function constructs for encapsulating expressions to be used in multiple contexts. Similarly, object-oriented languages provide class (or class-like) constructs for encapsulating sets of deenitions that are easily adapted for new programs. Despite the variety and abundance of suc...

Building Domain-specific Mobile-agent Platforms from Reusable Software Components

Mobile agents are a promising technology for developing applications in many application domains. However, it has not yet gained a large acceptance from the developers. One important reason for this is the difficulty of using generic mobile-agent platforms in specific application domains, which have very concrete requisites. In this paper, we present a reusable component-based framework that en...