The purpose of this paper is to describe a maintenance documentation system with a number of features contributing significantly towards process improvement and software reuse. The system makes extensive use of techniques of logic programming [1] to enable effective software change management, requirements traceability and continuous creation of templates for cross project use. A repository of ...

Software component reuse is the key to significant gains in productivity. However, the major problem is the lack of identifying and developing potentially reusable components. This paper concentrates on our approach to the development of reusable software components. A prototype tool has been developed, known as the Reuse Assessor and Improver System (RAIS) which can interactively identify, ana...

While object-orientation has had a large impact on the popularisation of reuse, reuse in OO is mostly ad hoc and thus lessons can be learned from the work on systematic reuse. On the other hand, the emphasis of object-orientation on iterative development can help in reducing the large up-front investments that are typically associated with systematic reuse. We claim that systematic reuse needs ...

Code reuse is a form of knowledge reuse in software development, which is fundamental to innovation in many fields. Yet, to date, there has been no systematic investigation of code reuse in open source software projects. This study uses quantitative and qualitative data gathered from a sample of six open source software projects to explore two sets of research questions derived from the literat...

Software organizations are encouraged to adopt reuse strategies into their development processes. Organizations use software reuse cost estimation models to assess the feasibility of investment in reuse programs. Each organization is unique in its resources and capabilities. Thus, the initial logical step in establishing a reuse program is to examine relevant reuse-specific cost factors applica...

Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide useful input for ontology reuse. However, the automated reuse of such ontologies remains underexplored. This paper presents a generic architecture for automated ontology reuse. With our implementation of this architecture...

Software reuse is broadly recognized as a way to accomplish efficient software development. Especially, lightweight software reuse using software component retrieval systems becomes popular; however, such reuse often causes problems against software traceability since software developers are able to reuse software components without knowing where the components are from. Developers should spend...

Inheritance is the vital feature of any object oriented software which provides reuse of exiting classes for designing new classes. Higher reuse provides higher productivity and greater quality. Inheritance hierarchy is one of the very important artifacts targeted for measurement of reuse and reusability. Reuse through inheritance hierarchy can be measured from two dimensionsDepth and Breadth. ...

Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide useful input for ontology reuse. However, the automated reuse of such ontologies remains underexplored. This paper presents a generic architecture for automated ontology reuse. With our implementation of this architecture...