Structuring software for reuse-the case of self-organizing maps

Published 24 August 2005

Dieter Merkl

DOI10.1109/ijcnn.1993.714224

Citations24

TL;DR

An approach to overcome the inconvenience of software reuse by applying Kohonen's self-organizing map to the description of software components is described, which results in a semantically structured software library.

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the application of Kohonen's self-organizing map in the area of software reuse. Although software reuse has a long historical tradition in research, what is still missing is an appropriate way to structure software repositories according to the semantic similarities of the stored software components. In this paper we describe an approach to overcome this inconvenience by applying Kohonen's self-organizing map to the description of software components. As a result we obtain a semantically structured software library.

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