Generating large-scale repositories of reusable artifacts for conceptual design of information systems

  • Authors:

  • Taedong Han;Sandeep Purao;Veda C. Storey

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management Information Systems, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, United States;College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States;J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4015, United States

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The design and construction of reusable artifacts is a labor-intensive and demands significant time and effort from expert designers. The up-front investment needed for constructing repositories of reusable artifacts is, therefore, often difficult to justify without immediate benefits. This research proposes a methodology, called the Domain Fragment Creator (DFC), to overcome this problem. It relies on a new type of reusable artifact, called domain fragments that can be generated by examining commonalities and variations in existing designs. The paper describes the methodology and evaluates the quality of the resulting repository using metrics such as domain coverage.