This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR-8, held in Madrid, Spain in July 2004. The 28 revised

As a result of the open-source movement there is now a great deal of reusable software available in the public domain. This offers significant functionality tha

Software reuse offers great cost-saving potential and this book spells out the methods and tools to realize these savings. Covering cost models for reuse, certi

This book documents methods for quantifying the benefits of software reuse so that developers can accurately judge whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantag