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Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2011, 4, 433-441 433 doi:10.4236/jsea.2011.47050 Published Online July 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Reliability Evaluation Optimal Selection Model of Component-Based System 1 1 1 1 Yong Guo , Tian Tian Wan , Pei Jun Ma , Xiao Hong Su 1School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Email: guoy@ th rd st Received May 30 , 2011; revised June 23 , 2011; accepted July 1 , 2011. ABSTRACT If the components in a component-based software system come from different sources , the characteristics of the com- ponents may be different. Therefore , evaluating the reliability of a component-based system with a fixed model for all components will not be reasonable. To solve this problem, this paper combines a single reliability growth model with an architecture-based reliability model, and proposes an optimal selecting approach. First, the most appropriate model of each component is selected according to the historical reliability data of the component, so that the evaluation devia- tion is the smallest. Then, system reliability is evaluated according to both the relationships among components and the using frequency of each component. As the approach takes into account the historical data and the using frequency of each component, the evaluation and prediction results are more accurate than those of using a single model. Keywords : Optimal Evaluation Approach, Likelihood Estimation, Reliability Evaluation, Component-Based System, Optimal Selection Model (OSM) 1. Introduction lower, the effect of the component to the system reliabil-