The Nix software deployment system is based on the paradigm of transparent source/binary deployment: distributors deploy descriptors that build components from source, while clien...
Deduction-based software component retrieval uses preand postconditions as indexes and search keys and an automated theorem prover (ATP) to check whether a component matches. This...
Use cases have achieved wide use as specification tools for systems observable behavior, but there still remains a large gap between specifying behavior and determining the softwar...
We propose a framework for component-based modeling of distributed systems. It provides separation of concerns between computation (in object oriented components), coordination (vi...
Frameworks that support the implementation and execution of service compositions are a fundamental component of middleware infrastructures that support the design of adaptive syste...