Software architecture descriptions can play a wide variety of roles in the software lifecycle, from requirements specification, to logical design, to implementation architectures....
— Distributed applications require specific middleware support for semantics and run-time constraints for a wide range of hardware or software configurations. However, their fu...
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is viewed as an opportunity to deal with the increasing complexity of modern-day software. Along with CBSE comes the notion of component...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
We present an approach to component inheritance and reuse which closes the gap between architectural design and process-oriented approaches. To apply inheritance checks in design a...