— The usage of dynamic languages is increasing among developers. As components are static entities, the usage of scripting languages, which are usually dynamically typed and inte...
Component adaptation is widely recognised to be one of the crucial problems in Component-Based Software Engineering. The objective of this paper is to set a formal foundation for t...
Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for ...
Binary component adaptation (BCA) allows components to be adapted and evolved in binary form and on-the-fly (during program loading). BCA rewrites component binaries before (or whi...
It is well known that modifying software by hand, especially someone else's, is not only slow and tedious but so notoriously error-prone that we strive for components that ne...