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Reusing the programs which have already been developed can shorten the production time and reduce costs and expenses. One of the important issues in software reuse is finding a program or a program component in a program library which has been already developed and using it in the new program. In view of precision and automation that formal methods can provide, we can use formal methods in retrieval appropriate components from the software libraries. In this paper, some of the works done in the field of retrieval of the components from the libraries by the help of formal methods have been surveyed and reviewed  

Component-Based Development (CBD) has been broadly used in software development, as it enhances reusability and flexibility, and reduces the costs and risks involved in systems development. It has therefore spawned many widely-used approaches, such as Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and software product lines. On the other hand, in order to gain a competitive edge, organizations need to define custom processes tailored to fit their specific development requirements. This has led to the emergence of process patterns and Method Engineering approaches. We propose a set of process patterns commonly encountered in component-based development methodologies. Seven prominent component-based... 

Reo is an exogenous coordination language for compositional construction of the coordinating subsystem of a component-based software. Constraint automaton is defined as the operational semantics of Reo. The main goal of this work is to prepare a model checking based verification environment for component-based systems, which their component connectors are modeled by Reo networks and Constraint Automata. We use compositional minimization and abstraction methods of model checking for verification of component-based systems and their component connectors modeled by Reo  

Today's software systems are more frequently composed from preexisting commercial or non-commercial components and connectors. These components provide complex and independent functionality and are engaged in complex interactions. Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is concerned with composing, selecting and designing such components. As the popularity of this approach and hence number of commercially available software components grows, selecting a set of components to satisfy a set of requirements while minimizing cost is becoming more difficult. This problem necessitates the design of efficient algorithms to automate component selection for software developing organizations. We...