Our research centers around exploring methodologies for developing reusable software, and developing methods and tools for building with reusable software. Roughly speaking, developing with reusable components involves three steps: 1) searching and retrieving reusable components based on partial specifications, 2) assessing the reuse worth of the retrieved components, and, possibly, 3) tailorin...

A reusable agent is a self contained computational system that implements some speci c expertise and that can be embedded into diverse applications requiring that expertise Systems composed of heterogeneous reusable agents are potentially highly adaptable maintainable and a ordable assuming that integration issues such as in formation sharing coordination and con ict management can be e ectivel...

An application framework provides a reusable design and implementation for a family of software systems. Frameworks are introduced to reduce the cost of a product line (i.e., family of products that share the common features). Software testing is a time consuming and costly ongoing activity during the application software development process. Generating reusable test cases for the framework app...

The goal of a Software Product Line (SPL) is to create a set of reusable software assets for the rapid production of a software systems family aimed at a specific market segment. The main objective of SPL engineering is to construct, as automatically as possible, specific products after selecting the particular set of features that must be included in them. Unlike traditional engineering of sin...