Our goal is to use the vast repositories of available open source code to generate specific
functions or classes that meet a user's specifications. The key words here are specifications …

Abstract Service matchmaking among heterogeneous software agents in the Internet is
usually done dynamically and must be efficient. There is an obvious trade-off between the …

The amount of services and deployed software agents in the most famous offspring of the
Internet, the World Wide Web, is exponentially increasing. In addition, the Internet is an open …

It is common practice for software developers to use examples to guide development efforts.
This largely unwritten, yet standard, practice of" develop by example" is often supported by …

The study of storage and retrieval methods of software assets in software libraries gives rise
to a number of paradoxes: While this subject has been under investigation for nearly two …

Software libraries are repositories which contain software components; as such, they
represent a precious resource for the software engineer. As software libraries grow in size, it …

The automatic location of services that fulfill a given need is a key step towards dynamic and
scalable integration. In this paper we present a model for the automatic location of services …

Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing
the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-Solving Method …

Keyword programming is a novel technique for reducing the need to remember details of
programming language syntax and APIs, by translating a small number of keywords …

A typical way to design and develop a mobile app is to sketch the graphical user interfaces
(GUIs) for the different screens in the app and then create actual GUIs from these sketches …