In the manufacturing domain, few new distributed systems are built ground-up; most contain wrapped legacy components. While the legacy components themselves are already well-teste...
Abstract. Explicit behavioural interface description languages (BIDLs, protocols) are now recognized as a mandatory feature of component languages in order to address component reu...
This paper presents a mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of component-based applications and its fault tolerance strategy. The mechanism, named generic connector, allows compos...
This paper presents an overview of the verication framework ALICE in its current version 0.7. It is based on the generic theorem prover Isabelle [Pau03a]. Within ALICE a software o...
Abstract. Current peer-to-peer architectures are hardly resistant against unanticipated exceptions such as the failure of single peers. This can be justified by the absence of soph...