Software component specification: A study in perspective of component selection and reuse

Proceedings - Fifth International Conference on Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 100-108

  Michael Geisterfer, C J ^a   Ghosh, Sudipto ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Component based development; Component reuse; Component selection; Component specification

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED DEVELOPMENT; COMPONENT REUSE; COMPONENT SELECTION; COMPONENT SPECIFICATION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REUSABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749393522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCBSS.2006.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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