Precalculating component interface compatibility using FCA
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ArticleSeries: ^p Datos electrónicos (1 archivo : 2458 KB)Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: In component-based software engineering, software systems are built by assembling prefabricated reusable components. The compatibility between the assembled components is crucial. It is determined by the comparison of their exposed interfaces: required interfaces (describing the services the component needs) and provided interfaces (describing the services the other component offers) must match. Given a component, finding a compatible component in a component repository is not trivial. The idea of this paper is that organizing component directories with a yellow-page-like structure makes the search for suitable components more efficient. We propose a solution based on Formal Concept Analysis to precalculate a concept lattice to organize our components. It proves to be an efficient solution to both represent the component compatibility information and provide a browsable component organization to support the component search mechanism.
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In component-based software engineering, software systems are built by assembling prefabricated reusable components. The compatibility between the assembled components is crucial. It is determined by the comparison of their exposed interfaces: required interfaces (describing the services the component needs) and provided interfaces (describing the services the other component offers) must match. Given a component, finding a compatible component in a component repository is not trivial. The idea of this paper is that organizing component directories with a yellow-page-like structure makes the search for suitable components more efficient. We propose a solution based on Formal Concept Analysis to precalculate a concept lattice to organize our components. It proves to be an efficient solution to both represent the component compatibility information and provide a browsable component organization to support the component search mechanism.
Proceedings of CLA ’07 (5th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications), pp. 237-248, Oct. 2007.