Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....
Software architecture is an important form of abstraction, representing the overall system structure and the relationship among components. When software is modified from one ver...
The UML has become the de facto standard for the analysis and design of complex software. Tool support today includes the generation of code realizing the structural model describe...
In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall av...
Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...