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This paper describes a method for estimating the salience of features comprising conceptual descriptions of software artifacts. Salience estimates are used in a model analyzing the similarity between such descriptions so as to promote the analogical reuse of the artifacts described by them. Salience is conceived as belief on the dominance of a feature, which is defined on the basis of three general properties that a feature may have in a conceptual model, namely the abstractness, the characteristicity and the causality. This belief is measured according to evidence inherent in conceptual schemas organizing software repositories.
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Spanoudakis, G., Constantopoulos, P. (1994). On evidential feature salience. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_180
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