Reuse in Object-Oriented Information Systems Design

Abstract

Improving reuse is still an important issue of Information Systems Engineering. Several current object-oriented approaches, such as patterns, frameworks or business components, address this topic at different phases of the software development process. This workshop focused on tools, techniques and methods developed to improve the reuse of design elements.

Reuse is today mainly gained with empirical tools and methods, and it is necessary to make reuse more systematic in object-oriented information systems design. Reuse at the design phase can be considered from two different yet complementary perspectives: (1) design for reuse or (2) design by reuse. 1. Design for reuse (1) deals with identifying reusable elements, specifying and organizing components, and integrating sets of and models for specifying reusable artifacts. 2. Design by reuse (2) needs to define new information systems engineering processes, and develop tools supporting systematic reuse of components in information systems.

Special attention has been given to contributions aiming to improve the above techniques by adapting novel or “non traditional” approaches at the edge of object-orientation (e.g. aspect-orientation or multi-viewpoints approaches, tools integrating artificial intelligence techniques, information retrieval, . . . ).