From: trygge@idt.unit.no (Eirik Tryggeseth)
Subject: Re: Need papers on Module Classification
Reply-To: trygge@idt.unit.no (Eirik Tryggeseth)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 12:33:06 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.185020.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, littlec1@jaguar.uofs.edu (Chris Little) writes:
|> 
|> I am currently researching classification of software modules and quite like
|> the paper "Classification of Reusable Modules" by Ruben Prieto-Diaz.  I would
|> very much like to get my hands on more papers along the same lines, but our
|> library here is not exactly geared towards research in the software
|> engineering/computer science field.  Could some of you out there direct me to
|> some good research papers in this area?  Thank you in advance.
|> --
|> Chris Little, Programmer/DBA
|>                                                 University Computing Systems
|>                                                 University of Scranton
|>   LITTLEC1@JAGUAR.UOFS.EDU                      Scranton, PA 18510

Hi,

Three months ago, I finished my Master's on classification of reusable
software components. We pretty much followed Prieto-Diaz' approach,
and defined a set of facets for classification of OO components. The
thesis was tightly coupled with the European ESPRIT research project
REBOOT (Reuse By OO Techniques). 

We have a number of articles written on the subject, all of them can
be sent to you on email (Postscript format) if you are interested:

Accepted at TOOLS7: 
        Classification of Object-Oriented Components for Reuse
Accepted at DEXA92: 
        Heuristics for Maintaining Term Structures for Relaxed Search
Accepted at SEI92 : 
        Software Reuse in an Educational Perspective
Accepted at SING92: 
        Organizational Aspects of Software Reuse
Accepted at CIKM92: 
        Weighted Term Spaces for Relaxed Search
Submitted to DE93  : 
        A Relaxed Query Processing Approach for Engineering Databases
Submitted to IJSEKE: 
        Organizing Large Libraries of Reusable Components: The REBOOT Approach
Submitted to SWOOP92:
        REBOOT: a Reuse Support Environment
Others:
        Relaxed Retrieval of Large Components

In addition to this, you can get a copy of our thesis (about 160 pages
long).  We also have implemented a working prototype of a
classification system with different browsers and facilities for
classification, retrival and termspace maintenace. The system is
currently used by a summerjob student classifying the COOL library.
The NIH library and a resource allocation application.

The prototype system  is implemented using AT&T 2.1 C++, InterViews and NIH.
If there is any interest, we could make this publicly available via ftp.


Appropriate expansions for the abbreviations used above are:

TOOLS7: Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
        Dortmund, Germany, Mar/Apr '92

DEXA92: 3rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
        Applications, September 2-4, 1992, Valencia, Spain 

SEI92 : Sixth SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education
	    In cooperation with ACM and IEEE Computer Society

			October 5-7, 1992
		       Hyatt Islandia Hotel
		      San Diego,  California

SING92: The Singapore COmputer Society (SCS) Silver Jubilee Conference
        will be held on October 12-14, 1992 as the prelude to the Singapore
        Informatics '92 (the annual IT fair in Singapore).  It is organised by
        the SCS and supported by the National Computer Board (NCB).

CIKM92: The First International Conference on Information and Knowledge
        Management (CIKM-92) will be held November 8-11, 1992 at the Radisson
        Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland and will focus on recent
        advances in database, knowledge base and information retrieval
        technologies.  It is sponsored by ISMM and is being held in
        cooperation with ACM (SIGART & SIGIR), AAAI, and the IEEE Computer
        Society.
        
        For an automatic reply containing more information about CIKM-92, send
        email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU.  Send queries to CIKM@CS.UMBC.EDU.

DE93  : Data Engineering 92, Vienna, Austria, 19-23 April 1993
IJSEKE: International Journal of Software Engineering and 
        Knowledge Engineering
SWOOP92: 1992 Scandinavian Workshop on Object Oriented 
         Programming Languages and Systems (SWOOP'92)

       September 2-3, 1992
       The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
       
       The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, mainly
       >from Scandinavian countries, to present recent research results on
       object-oriented and object-based programming techniques, including
       concurrent systems, and to discuss potential cooperations in the future.


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Eirik Tryggeseth                            email: trygge@idt.unit.no
Department of Computer Science              phone: +47 7 594483
Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)     fax  : +47 7 594466
N-7034 Trondheim
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