Domain engineering for graph libraries
Bo Tian · 2004
throughout these years in many ways. I just cannot find a way to thank him. I am also thankful to my fellow graduate students. They gave suggestions to this dissertation and helped me to improve my presentation. I couldn’t finish my research without the support from my wife. She is always behind me, silently and firmly. Finally I would like to dedicate this dissertation to my father. In his time, going to university was a dream. I hope he can share my happiness. 2 In this thesis, the problem we tackle is how to facilitate the reuse of a set of independently developed C++ graph libraries. We are concerned more precisely with library users being offered an alternative to having to study in detail the code of a library before deciding whether or not and how to reuse its components. Our fundamental postulate is that domain engineering does facilitate reuse, as extensively argued in the corresponding literature. Thus, the question we ask is the following: can