Rule-based COTS integration

Component-based software development is considered to he a promising technology to increase software development productivity. However, developing component-based applications faces different challenges. One of them is identifying component ensembles that satisfy any particular system requirements specification. In this paper we introduce a component integration evaluation based on software engineering integration rules. These rules represent real-world experiences and are combined into knowledge base. These representative rules evaluate compatibility among components according to their attributes of component specification.