Paper Info
Title
Case Retrieval of Software Designs using WordNet
Abstract
Software design is one of the most important phases in system development, due to crucial decisions that are made during this phase. The need for software being developed in less time puts a lot of pressure in the design phase. One way to solve this problem is to reuse previous design solutions. In software design reuse the retrieval of relevant designs is a key issue. Case-Based Reasoning reuses past experiences to solve new problems, providing a reasoning framework for design reuse. But designing software involves reasoning at a more abstract level than coding software, thus a software design reuse tool must be able to work with a broad range of abstract concepts. A possible solution is the use of a common sense ontology, capable of providing this kind of knowledge, otherwise the system would have to demand a lot of knowledge from the designer. This paper presents an approach to software design retrieval based on Case-Based Reasoning combined with a common sense ontology - WordNet. We describe the case retrieval algorithm, the case similarity metrics and experimental results.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
FRONTIERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
software design,case base reasoning
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Software design,Computer science,Software system,Artificial intelligence,Software sizing,Software development,Software engineering,Software design description,Component-based software engineering,Software construction,Machine learning,Software framework
Conference
77
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0922-6389
19
1.21
References 
Authors
10
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo Gomes110517.08
Francisco C. Pereira233133.07
Paulo Paiva31069.85
Nuno Seco444827.86
Paulo Carreiro51069.85
José Luís Ferreira6425.90
Carlos Bento720119.84