System software for future computing environments becomes more complex and heterogeneous. Portability becomes one of the important properties of the future system software. Compon...
Hierarchical software components offer interesting characteristics for the development of complex applications. However, supporting the deployment of such applications is difficult...
While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss ...
Commercial-off-the-shelf components (COTS) are widely reused at present and black-box composition is the unique way to integrate them into the target system. However, various mism...
The application of component repository has become more and more popular in the practice of component-based software development. Most of the repositories are physically isolated ...
Yunjiao Xue, Leqiu Qian, Ruzhi Xu, Bin Tang, Xin P...