In the context of the modular and incremental development of complex systems, viewed as interconnections of interacting components, new dimensions and new problems arise in the ca...
For embedded systems as well as for biological cell systems, design is a feature that defines their identity. The assembly of different components in designs of both systems can ...
Tessa E. Pronk, Simon Polstra, Andy D. Pimentel, T...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are constantly gaining ground for the provision of business to business as well as user-centric services, mainly in the form of Web Services ...
George N. Prezerakos, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Giovan...
The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...