Abstract. A component-based system consists of components linked by connectors. Data can reside in components and/or in external data stores. Operations on data, such as access, up...
Data encapsulation is a familiar property in object-oriented programming. It is not only useful for modelling things in the real world, but it also facilitates reuse by enabling th...
Abstract. In current software components models, components do not encapsulate control, and are composed by connection mechanisms which pass control from component to component. Co...
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has an imaging model similar to that of PostScript and PDF but the XML basis of SVG allows it to participate fully, via namespaces, in generalised X...
Alexander J. Macdonald, David F. Brailsford, Steve...