• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.3
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• pp.399-408
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• 2002

Component technology was proposed and applied to software development to overcome software crisis. Software component is a black box like an integrated circuit in hardware but it can not be utilized without good support specially for helping users understand efficiently. This paper shows that data book format for understanding hardware component can be well applied to representing software component. We selected an approach to understand component by matching the contents of data book with UML and API model technique. Besides, we added the architecture part and the interface which are the most important property of software component to the data book for software components. In order to verify effectiveness of components data book we extended batch descriptor in EJB and performed an experiment providing data book to programmers with components.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.135-147
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• 2012

Software architecture, as a blueprint for the system, should provide a robust foundation for design, implementation, and maintenance, for communication and documentation, and for reasoning about important system properties. Software architecture plays a central role during the whole software life-cycle. There are so diverse definitions of the software architecture, however, and there is no common agreement about what software architecture is. Examining 27 'published' definitions of software architecture, we synthesize an extensive model on the essential elements of software architecture, which consists of components, interaction among components, well-formed structure, reasons, and various perspectives. Further, we explore the possibility of unifying diverse software architecture definitions into a software architecture life-cycle model.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.1112-1120
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• 1996

One of different methods to increase the productivity of software development team is to reuse the software components which were used once. Such a reusable software components are often organized software libraries. In order to reuse effectively the software modules selected from a library, the users need information enough to search for the modules easily. This paper designs and implements the tool which provides the information about the relationship between classes to reuse software components, and makes a new class by combining the data and functions from existing classes.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06c
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• pp.59-62
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• 2000

A software application builder has designed and partially implemented a E-Business software system using several reusable in-house software components. The builder finds an externally available third-party software components that satisfies solve desired functionality or behavior. We need systematic classification of the component from the domain. We propose a reference architecture of E-Business domain. It is used to search and reuse requiring components.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1443-1452
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose a semantic similarity measure for reusable software components, which aims to provide the automatic classification process of reusable to be stored in the structure of a software library, and to provide an efficient retrieval method of the software components satisfying the user's requirements. We have identified the facets to represent component characteristics by extracting information from the component descriptions written in a natural language, composed the software component identifiers from the automatically extracted terms corresponding to each facets, and stored them which the components in the nearest locations according to the semantic similarity of the classified components. In order to retrieve components satisfying user's requirements, we measured a semantic similarity between the queries and the stored components in the software library. As a result of using the semantic similarity to retrieve reusable components, we could not only retrieve the set of components satisfying user's queries. but also reduce the retrieval time of components of user's request. And we further improve the overall retrieval efficiency by assigning relevance ranking to the retrieved components according to the degree of query satisfaction.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.147-153
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• 2002

The real-time reception and recording of down-link mission data from a satellite requires the highest reliability because the data lost in receiving process cannot be recovered. The data receiving and recording system has moved from a set of dedicated hardware and software components to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components in order to reduce the system cost as well as to upgrade the system easily for handling other satellite data. The use of COTS hardware and middleware components prevents the system developer from correcting or modifying the internal operations of the COTS components, and hence, instant performance degradation of the COTS components which affects the reliable data acquisition must be covered by a software algorithm. This paper introduces the instant performance problem of a COTS data recording device which leads to the data loss in the real-time data reception and recording process. As a result, the requirement of the modification of the conventional data read/write technique is issued. In order to overcome the data loss problem due to the use of COTS components and the conventional software technique, a new algorithm called a software buffering technique is proposed. The experiments show that the application of the proposed technique results in reliable real-time reception and recording of high speed serial data.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.704-716
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• 2005

Assembling new software systems from Prepared components is an attractive alternative to traditional software development method to reduce development cost and schedule dramatically. However, if separately developed components are tested, integrated and verified with unreasonable effort and high cost, it would not be an effective way to software development. Components are not distributed in the shape of white-box source code so that should be hard to validate and test in new application environment. For solving this problem, built-in tester components are suggested to check the contract-compliance of their server components. If components have various and complex function, built-in tester should be heavy and unflexible to test in composition of components. This paper suggests enhancing automated wrapper technique which substitutes with built-in tester components and shows the usability of the wrapper by design and implementation. Component testing in this way reduces the cost and effort associated with preparation of component testing and makes the various test experiments in components assembly.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.539-545
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• 2010

Through the AUTOSAR methodology, the embedded software shall become more flexible, reusable, maintainable than ever. However, it is not mentioned about specific timing constraints of software components in AUTOSAR. There are a few basic principles for mapping runnable entities. At this point, AUTOSAR software design with optimal scheduling method is one of the enabling technologies in vehicle embedded system. This paper presents an approach based on mapping runnable entities and task scheduling design method for EPS (Electric Power Steering) software components, based on AUTOSAR. In addition, the experimental results of concurrent simulation show that the proposed scheduling technique and timing synchronization in the software component design can achieve the improved torque ripple performance and it well suited for EPS application software.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.187-199
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• 2012

In general, accelerated life testing is performed to reduce testing time. But it is difficult to apply accelerated life testing to a system besides components. This paper developed a software which estimates reliability measures of the system from results of accelerated life testing of components building the system. This software can handle the system with a large number of components and complex topology. Multiple failure modes of a component were also considered in this software. Based on the software, reliability measures of a gearbox example at several conditions were estimated from the accelerated life testing results of three components of the gearbox.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.1
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• pp.62-70
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• 2001

Correct descriptions for software component functions become a strong requirement in developing critical software especially on the area of real-time applications. In this paper, we introduce both formalization of software design using patterns and verification methods in order for the components to increase their understandability. In particular, the paper investigates into a means of formal description techniques based on VDM++ for the software components, and provides adequacy proof steps for a given functional descriptions.