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 ...
—We have defined a software component model which specifies components and composition operators. These operators coordinate and encapsulate concurrency between components. In ...
Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
re connector is an abstraction capturing interactions among components. Apart from middleware independence, connectors provide additional services (e.g., adaptation, synchronizati...
The promise of component-based software development is that larger, more complex systems can be built reasonably quickly and reliably from pre-fabricated ("off-the-shelf"...