Software reusability: vol. 1, concepts and models
Software reusability: vol. 1, concepts and models
Toward higher-level abstractions for software systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on the third international symposium on knowledge engineering, Madrid, Spain, October 1988
Object-oriented modeling and design
Object-oriented modeling and design
Research directions in concurrent object-oriented programming
Using design patterns to develop reusable object-oriented communication software
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on object-oriented experiences and future trends
Restructuring OODesigner: a CASE tool for OMT
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Procura: a project management model of concurrent planning and design
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Integrating planning and execution in software development processes
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Project coordination in design processes
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Software reuse: from library to factory
IBM Systems Journal
A graph based requirements clustering approach for component selection
Advances in Engineering Software
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This paper presents a framework and a prototype for designing Integrated Construction Management (ICM) software applications using reusable components. The framework supports the collaborative development of ICM software applications by a group of ICM application developers from a library of software components. The framework focuses on the use of an explicit software development process to capture and disseminate specialized knowledge that augments the description of the ICM software application components in a library. The importance of preserving and using this knowledge has become apparent with the recent trend of combining the software development process with the software application code. There are three main components in the framework: design patterns, design rationale model, and intelligent search algorithms. Design patterns have been chosen to represent, record, and reuse the recurring design structures and associated design experience in object-oriented software development. The Design Recommendation and Intent Model (DRIM) was extended in the current research effort to capture the specific implementation of reusable software components. DRIM provides a method by which design rationale from multiple ICM application designers can be partially generated, stored, and later retrieved by a computer system. To address the issues of retrieval, the paper presents a unique representation of a software component, and a search mechanism based on Reggia's setcover algorithm to retrieve a set of components that can be combined to get the required functionality is presented. This paper also details an initial, proof-of-concept prototype based on the framework. By supporting nonobtrusive capture as well as effective access of vital design rationale information regarding the ICM application development process, the framework described in this paper is expected to provide a strong information base for designing ICM software.