A Components Library System Model and the Support Tool

Component-based development needs a well-designed components library and a set of support tools. This paper prasents the design and implementation of a components library system model and its support tool UMLCASE, A set of practical CASE tools is constructed. UMLCASE can use UML to design Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram etc. And it integrates with components library system. Key words component technology - components library - support tool for components library CLC number TP 311. 52 - TP 311 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China (60373072) and National 973 Program (2002CB312001)Biography: MIAO Huai-kou (1953-), male. Professor, research direction: formal methods, software engineering and automatic reasoning.

Distributed and Parallel Component Library

Software component library is the essential part of reuse-based softwaredevelopment. It is shown that making use of a single component library to store all kinds ofcomponents and from which components are searched is very inefficient. We construct multi-librariesto support software reuse and use PVM as development environments to imitate large-scale computer,which is expected to fulfill distributed storage and parallel search of components efficiently andimprove software reuse.

Design and Implementation of Traceability Management System of Agricultural Products Quality and Safety Based on Domestic Basic Software of China

[Objective] To establish the traceability mechanism of agricultural products safety, and the application of promote domestic based software in the supervision area of agricultural products quality and safety. [Method] Through the analysis on the circulation characteristics of agricultural products, like fruits, vegetables, livestock and poultry, the agricultural products quality safety management and traceability query business component libraries were designed. Based on the run-time-supporting environment provided by domestic based software, traceability management system of agricultural products quality and safety was constructed. [Result] The traceability management system provided the information interaction and comprehensive management platform of agricultural product quality and safety based on domestic based software for the government, enterprises and consumers. [Conclusion] Through the application demonstration, the quality control and information traceability of full circulation of agricultural products was achieved effective and reliably, and the management level of agricultural products quality and safety was improved.

Knowledge-based engineering approach for the support of ship structure design

The paper presents a knowledge-based engineering （KBE） approach for ship node components design. In the ship design process, many design tasks need design experiences to support. Howev- er, a ship design process is a complicated process with many simultaneously repetitive and time-con- suming activities. In this research, the method combines KBE with Tribon system＇s built-in devel- opment language tools of Vitesse, captures and applies design knowledge for achieving standard com- ponents intelligent design modeling. A case study and industry implementation illustrate the feasibili- ty of the proposed methodology. The KBE technique can provide not only proper references, sug- gests and supports but also knowledge integrated in the ship structure design. Especially, these rules related to the design can avoid lots of design mistakes. During the ship design stage, getting more precise and better designs will not only reduce the time of rework and wasting resources but also shorten the construction time_ imnrov~ clilnl;hz ~nA nrnf;t

Matching Strategies and Fuzzy URLs in Web Based Component Retrieving

The World Wide Web (WWW) has greatly changed the way of component based software reuse, for large number of components provided by different vendors become available and it's rather difficult to find and choose what we in fact need. To make large amount of the components collaborate, an information exchanging model is essential. In order to retrieve and search the suitable or usable components more effectively, some techniques should be taken into account. Among these techniques, matching strategies and fuzzy URL semantics are significant for the former help us to find components which could be reused and the other both to broaden the searching areas and use some uncertain information to make the searching more purposive. A brief discuss on an abstract component model (UACModel) is begun, which was proposed to promote the interoperability and information exchange among various reusable component libraries (RCLs), and a framework for component retrieval. Then the emphases are put on some matching strategies, especially incomplete ones that encourage reuse through component customization, and fuzzy URL extensions to be supported and realized.

Reuse-based software production technology

Software reuse is viewed as a key technology to improve software product quality and productivity. This paper discusses a series of technologies related with software reuse and software component technology: component model, which describes component’s essential characteristics; component acquisition technology, of which domain engineering is the main approach; component management technology, of which component library is the kernel; application integration and composition technology, of which application engineering is the main approach; software evolution technology, of which software reengineering is the main approach, etc. This paper introduces the software development environment: JadeBird Software Production Line System, which effectively integrates the above-mentioned technologies.