We propose a unifying framework for model-based specification notations. Our framework captures the execution semantics that are common among model-based notations, and leaves the...
Component-based software engineering attempts to address the ever increasing demand for new software applications by enabling a compositional approach to software construction in ...
Building a system at the architectural level can be thought of as decomposition into components followed by a series of exercises in matching. Components must be composed with eac...
Rick Kazman, Paul C. Clements, Leonard J. Bass, Gr...
Ideally in the deployment phase, components should be composable, and their composition checked. Current component models fall short of this ideal. Most models do not allow composi...
Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in several areas of software development. In order to unify several languages and tools that rely on s...