As more and more open-source software components become available on the internet we need automatic ways to label and compare them. For example, a developer who searches for reusa...
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...
This paper is about a paradigm shift from the current practice of manually searching for and adapting components and their manual assembly to Generative Programming, which is the a...
Code model checking of software components suffers from the well-known problem of state explosion when applied to highly parallel components, despite the fact that a single compon...
In CBSD, the possible benefits of COTS software development, such as low cost, low risk, and high quality, cannot be satisfactorily achieved due to inadequate and/or incomplete pro...
Luis Iribarne, Antonio Vallecillo, Carina Alves, J...