Museion-reuse support system for design of service features

Museion is a reuse support system integrated in a service creation environment. A number of service features have been implemented and tested on a test bed consisting of a PABX switching system and a workstation. Reuse has been applied to all phases of the software development cycle. Museion is an intelligent database system with facilities for storage, search and evaluation of reusable components. One feature of Museion is the concept of aggregates, an abstract data structure containing reusable components as well as information supporting the classification, search and retrieval of the specific components. Museion maintains links between related aggregates enabling a hypertext navigation facility. A prototype Museion consisting of a number of integrated tools has been designed and implemented. The authors discuss the usefulness of Museion and compare it with other repositories