An evolutionary multiobjective approach for the component selection problem

Abstract

Component selection is a crucial problem in Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) that is concerned with the assembly of pre-existing software components. We are approaching the component selection involving dependencies between components. We formulate the problem as multiobjective, involving 2 objectives and one constraint. The approach used is an evolutionary computation technique. The experiments and comparisons with Greedy approach show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.