The semantic Web is the second generation of the Web, which helps sharing and reusing
data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Ontology defines a set of …

Identification of COTS candidates is a complex activity itself. It implies not only dealing with
an impressive number of possible candidates but also with unstructured information that …

Component Based Development aims at constructing software through the integration of
components by using interfaces and contracts among them. However, these components …

The adoption of COTS-based development brings with it many challenges about the
identification and finding of candidate components for reuse. Particularly, the first stage in …

The number of artifacts used and generated by the software development process can be
meaningful. However, as specifications evolve towards source code, the connection …

With the advent of Component-based software engineering (CBSE), large software systems
are being built by integrating pre-built software components. The Semantic Web in …

Self-growing software is a software system that grows its functionalities and configurations
by itself based on dynamically monitored situations. Self-growing software is especially …

Software reuse is a promising solution to the software crisis. Reuse repositories are the
basic infrastructure for software reuse. During the past decade, various academic …

Automated support such as the one provided by software development environments
(SDEs) is a key requirement for the systematization of large-scale component-based …

This paper discusses the use of standardized bibliographic metadata sets for the retrieval of
software components. Their proven success, and the assumption that software components …