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This paper discusses that in order to achieve systematic reuse, the technical and non-technical issues must be considered in parallel, and a set of component models should be built from different perspectives. Each of these models gives a specific view of the components so as to satisfy different needs of different persons involved in the enterprise reuse program. Especially, we present a reusable component model – FLP model for reusable component, which describes components from three dimensions (form, level, and presentation) and views components and their relationships from the perspective of process and management. This model determines the sphere of reusable components, the time points of reusing components in the development process, and the needed means to present components in terms of the abstraction level, logic granularity and presentation media. It is the basis on which the management and technical decisions are made. It will be used as the kernel model to initialize and normalize a systematic enterprise reuse program. After the FLP model, the relationships among these different models are discussed. Furthermore, the usage of these models to facilitate the perspective management of enterprise software reuse is discussed.
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Mei, H. A Component Model for Perspective Management of Enterprise Software Reuse. Annals of Software Engineering 11, 219–236 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012551421510
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