I.J. Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2015, 10, 55-62 Published Online September 2015 in MECS (http://www.mecs-press.org/) DOI: 10.5815/ijisa.2015.10.07 Copyright © 2015 MECS I.J. Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2015, 10, 55-62 Classification of Reusable Components Based on Clustering Muhammad Husnain Zafar Dept. of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan E-mail: husnainzafarmscs@gmail.com Rabia Aslam Dept. of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan E-mail: aizelsajday@gmail.com Muhammad Ilyas Dept. of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan E-mail: m.ilyas@uos.edu.pk Abstract—Software reuse is the process of implementing or updating software systems using existing software components. A good software reuse process facilitates the increase of productivity, quality and reliability. It decreases the cost and implementation time as compared to develop new system. Despite its many benefits we cannot achieve its full benefits. The reason behind this is that software reuse is often done in an informal and haphazard way. If done systematically, then we can achieve its full benefits. This research proposes a method through which we will classify the reusable components in proper way to get the full benefits of reusability. We classify the reusable components according to their clusters. Clusters are made on the basis of parameters provided with components. We develop an algorithm for assigning clusters to the reusable components. Index Terms—Software Components, Software Clustering, Software Reusability, Software Classification. I. INTRODUCTION Due to the benefits of reusability like, reduction in time, cost and work as compared to develop a new system, it has turn into useful tool for software development [1, 2, 3]. If we apply reusability into software components then reusable components are maintaining easily and usually have a higher quality value [4]. In order to make reuse an effective methodology, it is necessary that the designer must know how to retrieve the suitable solution, how to adopt that solution to fulfill the requirement of new problem and how to evaluate the result of that solution [5]. That [5] is the biggest problem in many organizations. To overcome this weakness, there is a need to organize and classify collection of components so that we can identify the suitable component for potential reuse [6]. This solution provides an aid to the software developer [7]. This research proposes a method through which we classify the reusable components in proper way. We classify the reusable components according to their clusters. Cluster analysis is a system used for cataloging of data in which data elements are screened into groups called clusters that represent collections of data elements that are based on dissimilarity or distance [8]. A cluster analysis acts a big job in software alliance. Cluster analysis is the proposal for sorting out data into clusters or groups in a situation where no prior information about a structure is vacant [9]. It divides data into groups (clusters) that are meaningful, useful or both [10]. The clustering approach is a key gadget in decision making and an effective inspiration method in generating ideas and obtaining solutions. Clusters combine the similar units into one cluster and clusters should be different as possible. If there exist high similarity in intra-cluster and low similarity in inter-cluster, the quality of clustering becomes high [11]. For solving classified problem, clustering is an uncertain data analysis tool. Its objective is to sort cases into groups or clusters, so that the degree of friendship is strong between members of the same cluster and weak between members of different clusters [8]. Rest of the paper compromise the following sections. Section II describes related work. Proposed framework and algorithms are given in Section III and Section IV respectively. Results and discussions are explained in Section V. Section VI compromises the conclusion and future work. II. RELATED WORK Reusability becomes very effective elements of software development because it gives many benefits to the developer like less time, less effort and less cost as compared to develop new component [15]. It also reduces the risk that is related to software development. Instead of its many advantages, there is a lack of symmetric way to use the reusable components in proper way. This paper tries eliminating this flaw. M. Ilyas et al [15] gives a frame work that gives a systematic way to