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Using WordNet for case-based retrieval of UML models

Authors

Paulo Gomes
Francisco Câmara Pereira
Paulo Paiva
Nuno Seco
Paulo Carreiro
José Luís Ferreira
José Luís Ferreira
Carlos Bento

Abstract

Software complexity has increased substantially in the last
decade. This has made software development teams work faster and
under tight budgets. Reusing software can be a way of solving this
problem. Companies should reuse previous working solutions in new
projects, decreasing the development time and increasing software
quality. But there are at least two requirements to implement this
solution. One is that the company must have a central knowledge
repository with software specifications, designs and code from
previous system developments. The second one is to have at the
disposal tools capable of using this repository in an intelligent
way. We have developed a system capable of providing these
requirements. It has a central knowledge base that can be used
through Case-Based Reasoning. The knowledge base integrates a
common ontology called WordNet, providing classification for
software objects. This paper focuses on the retrieval of design
models using the combination of WordNet and Case-Based Reasoning.
We also present a retrieval example, and experimental work showing
the performance of the retrieval and ranking mechanisms.

Keywords

CBR, WordNet, Software Reuse, UML

Subject

CBR for Software Reuse

Related Project

ReBuilder - Intelligent Reuse of Software Objects

Journal

AI Communications, Vol. 1, #17, January 2004

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