Improving Retrieval Effectiveness Using Ant Colony Optimization

Software reuse is only effective if it is easier to locate and appropriately modify a reusable component than to write it from scratch. It is the use of existing software knowledge or artifacts also known as software components to build new software. There are two main problems in software reuse. First, classifying software modules in a component library is a major problem in software reuse. Second, identifying appropriate software components in a library or software component retrieval is an important task in software reuse: after all, components must be found before they can be reused. Many researchers have proposed various techniques to search and retrieve components. Proposed technique helps re-user to identify and retrieve software component. In its first step it matches keywords, their synonyms and their interrelationships. And then makes use of ant colony optimization, a probabilistic approach to generate rule for matching the component against the re-user query.