caa a22 4500 475834062 CHVBK 20180406123849.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s005210070004 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s005210070004 A Visualised Software Library: Nested Self-Organising Maps for Retrieving and Browsing Reusable Software Assets [Elektronische Daten] [H. Ye, B. W. N. Lo] This paper presents an approach to self-structuring software libraries. The authors developed a representation scheme to construct a feature space over a collection of software assets. The feature space is represented and classified by a variety of the self-organising map, called the Nested Software Self-Organising Map (NSSOM), consisting of a top map and a set of sub-maps nested in the top map. The clustering on the top map provides general improvements in retrieval recall, while the lower-level nested maps further elaborate the clusters into more specific groups enhancing retrieval precision. The results of preliminary evaluation showed that NSSOM is capable of enhancing precision without sacrificing recall. In addition, a user-friendly browsing facility has also been developed which helps users predict the desired components by providing an intelligible search space. The present approach attempts to achieve an optimal combination of efficiency, accuracy and user-friendliness, which is not offered by the existing software retrieval systems.: Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2000 Keywords: Browsing facility nationallicence Information visualisation nationallicence Self-organising map nationallicence Software library nationallicence Software retrieval nationallicence Software reuse nationallicence Ye H. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, AU aut Lo B. W. N. School of Multimedia and Information Technology, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, AU aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s005210070004 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s005210070004 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ye H. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, AU aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lo B. W. N. School of Multimedia and Information Technology, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, AU aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer