An example product line architecture: Digital Library Projects

Using Service Utilization Metrics to Assess and Improve Product Line Architectures

Metrics have long been used in software engineering to measure, evaluate, and improve software products and processes. Many metrics have been developed and their subsequent use in different settings has led to varying levels of success. Software architecture is a discipline in which few metrics have been applied, a surprising fact given the important role that software architecture plays in sof...

An example product line architecture: The Library System

Adaptation and Localization: Metadata Research and Development for Chinese Digital Resources

Presented is the metadata research and development in China. Beginning in the 1980s, the research project aimed at developing Chinese metadata standards, schemes, and specifications was first launched in 1997. Since then, many metadata-related projects have been conducted and completed. This paper summarizes the achievements of these projects, and introduces Chinese metadata standards, schemes,...

An Architecture for Reference Linking

The Digital Library Research Group at Cornell has Reference Linking as one of its projects. Typical projects within in the group take an object-oriented approach to handling digital information. To support reference linking, therefore, we designed a scheme whereby reference linking information is extracted from archives by surrogate objects and then presented to client applications or users by ...

Ant Colony Optimization for Multi-objective Digital Convergent Product Network

Convergent product is an assembly shape concept integrating functions and sub-functions to form a final product. To conceptualize the convergent product problem, a web-based network is considered in which a collection of base functions and sub-functions configure the nodes and each arc in the network is considered to be a link between two nodes. The aim is to find an optimal tree of functionali...