A knowledge generation machine (KGM) that collects information of varying types from a plurality of different sources is provided. The KGM uses this information to understand, correlate, and expand a dependency model in order to realize a set of dependencies for a software component. The KGM provides an adaptive dependency model that detects new sources of information and creates new dependencies and dependency types based on that new information. A dependency is given a weighting that is used to resolve potentially circular dependencies.