The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and Qo...
Service composition is a new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective IT service provisioning over the network. To safely and effectively deploy composed services within an organi...
Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting to specialize the behavior of ...
We propose a Java-like language where class denitions are rst class values, hence new classes can be derived from existing, rather than by a xed mechanism like inheritance, by e...
Progressing beyond the productivity of present-day languages appears to require using domain-specific knowledge. Domain-specific languages and libraries (DSLs) proliferate, but ...