Knowledge-based repository scheme for storing and retrieving business components: A theoretical design and an empirical analysis

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 649-664

  Vitharana, Padmal ^a   Zahedi, Fatemeh Mariam ^b   Jain, Hemant ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business component; Component repository; Empirical study; Software library; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROGRAM ASSEMBLERS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPONENT BASED DEVELOPMENT; RETRIEVING BUSINESS COMPONENTS; STORING BUSINESS COMPONENTS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0041848286     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1214328     Document Type: Article

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