Research Article 
A General Approach for Optimizing Degree of Variability of Software Components
Zhongjie Wang, Dechen Zhan and Xiaofei Xu
Information Technology Journal, 2008, 7(3), 474-481.
Abstract
In this research, we put forward a general approach for designing components from multiple domain applications by optimizing degree of variability of components, to reach a global optimization between usefulness and usability and maximize global reusability performance of components. A simplified software component model and its usability metrics are firstly introduced. Then process of variability optimization oriented component design is put forward. Three important issues in this approach, i.e., choosing variability policies (negative or positive), determining degree of variability based on semantics abstraction tree (SAT) partitioning and component structure design by composing multiple dimensions, with some primary solutions, are briefly discussed.
ASCI-ID: 28-47
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2011 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Electronic Commerce (AIMSEC), 2011, (), 2799. DOI: 10.1109/AIMSEC.2011.6010547