Algorithmic Approach for Efficient Retrieval of Component Repositories in Component based Software Engineering

Objectives: Software development is largely being transformed from traditional model based approach to plug and play component based approach which is required for enhancing reusability of the system for robust development. Methods/ Statistical Analysis: Tremendous techniques and models have been used and adopted for component qualification and adaptation using selection, construction, analysis and evaluation algorithms. The major task has always been to find an optimum centric approach to trade off the advantages of customized development and development using reusable components. Findings: CBSE environment and development by using various components as object, detail description and tools with platforms have been presented. The classification algorithms showed robustness of component, based on various extracted module. The ontology based algorithm is one of the robust techniques in the retrieval process. Futuristic implementation will emerge with this segregation cum classification scenario in a single unit that is to refine component presentation, management and retrieval. Applications/Improvements: Initially IBM Company adopted the concept of CBSE by using the System Object Model (SOM). The functions, libraries and UNIX pipes are some other examples of such approaches. The scope of the improvement, as far as findings and further work is concerned, lies with the selection, classification and retrieval scheme for component repositories. This has been improved with different representations of meta data of the component such as domain, interface, services and other semantic information.