A model-based approach to simulation composition
SSR '99 Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Software reusability
Specification-Based Browsing of Software Component Libraries
Automated Software Engineering
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
SPARTACAS Automating Component Reuse and Adaptation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Retrieving reusable components with variation points from software product lines
Information Processing Letters
A Component-Based Systems Development Approach
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
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Automated assistance for software component reuse involves supporting retrieval, adaptation and verification of software components. The informality of feature-based software classification schemes is an impediment to formally verifying the reusability of a software component. The use of formal specifications to model and retrieve reusable components alleviates the informality, but the formal reasoning required for retrieval introduces questions of scalability. To provide scalability, current retrieval systems resort to syntactic classification at some level of abstraction, abandoning the semantic information provided by the specification. We propose a methodology that shifts the overhead of formal reasoning from the retrieval to the classification phase of reuse. Software components are classified using semantic features that are derived from their formal specification. Retrieval of functionally similar components can then be accomplished based on the stored feature sets. Formal verification can be applied to precisely determine the reusability of the set of similar components.