Ontology-Based Component Description and Intelligent Retrieval

The key to software reuse based on component is searching for required component from the component library. In this paper, discussion is on the technology of component retrieval based on the combination of ontology and the multi-agent system (MAS). It uses OWL description language to have a component descried which is based on the mode of faceted classification. Finally, a component retrieval system based on MAS is designed and implemented, which enables the semantic search under higher recall and precision, but also to improve the search speed. In this way the components searched satisfy more with the need of users.