Ranking and Selecting Components to Build Systems

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) allows developers to build systems using existing components. Developers need to find the best set of components that implements most of required features. Retrieving components manually can be very complicated and time expensive. Tools that partially automate this task help developers to build better systems with less effort. This paper proposes a methodology for ranking and selecting components to build an entire system instead of retrieving just a single component. This methodology was developed in the European project CLARiFi (CLear And Reliable Information For Integration)