Agile development processes and component-based software architectures are two software engineering approaches that contribute to enable the rapid building and evolution of applic...
With the move to distributed, component based systems involving reuse of components and services, emergent, system-wide properties, including safety and security in particular, are...
Using models in different contexts poses major integration challenges, ranging from technical to conceptual levels. Independently of each other developed model components cannot b...
Modeling the dependencies between provided and required services within a software component is necessary for several reasons, such as automated component adaptation and architectu...
Large, complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Addition, removal and replacement of a software component are the elementary evolution operations that have ...