Components are units of composition and reuse, and as such they are carriers of a piece of functionality that can be utilized in fulfilling operational demands for systems. In the literature, various types of analogue and digital hardware components, system, application and utility software components, as well as cyberware (information and knowledge structure) components are discussed. However, it is very difficult to find publications in which comprehensive taxonomies or classifications of these are proposed or applied. Are you aware of any general taxonomy or classification schemes of hardware, software and/or cyberware components, no matter if they are off-the-shelf or custom-developed components? Are there any standards or specifications in these fields?
A guy called Nick Milton wrote a book on a Knowledge Acquisition methodology and he used what we call a "top ontology." At Rolls-Royce plc (aerospace) we used it on about 100 projects with success. The Project was called Spede (name now changed I think) The book reference is here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wHf67vdK-QUC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=knowledge+acquisition+rolls+royce&source=bl&ots=uccRdTpZV8&sig=wRzTb_Qdml0FNogj1c80Dr5VPso&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2vqXVOzzEfDW7QbNvoCYDg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=knowledge%20acquisition%20rolls%20royce&f=false
Doug Bowman has done a lot of work over the years in defining taxonomies - especially for 3DUI. See: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/3dui.org/course_notes/siggraph2001/evaluation.pdf . At the moment I can't quite point you to a taxonomy of hardware or software.
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