Building software systems out of pre-fabricated components is a very attractive vision. Distributed Component Platforms (DCP) and their visual development environments bring this v...
: The concept of interface in Ada 2005 significantly facilitates its usage as the basis for a software components technology. This technology, taking benefit of the resources that ...
A component is the basic re-usable unit of composition to build composite systems by connecting to others through their provided and required ports. Checking the functional complia...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...
In this paper, we identify the different roles and contract types which are important in providing Quality of Service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. A surprising res...