Component-based development has emerged as an effective approach to building flexible systems, but there is little experience in applying this approach to Grid programming. This p...
Nikos Parlavantzas, Matthieu Morel, Vladimir Getov...
Component-based software structuring principles are now commonly and successfully applied at the application level; but componentisation is far less established when it comes to b...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Paul Grace, Fran&c...
This paper presents an experience report on the specification and the validation of a real case study in the context of the industrial CRISTAL project. The case study concerns a pl...
Samuel Colin, Arnaud Lanoix, Olga Kouchnarenko, Je...
Protocol conversion deals with the automatic synthesis of an additional component, often referred to as an adaptor or a converter, to bridge mismatches between interacting compone...
Partha S. Roop, Alain Girault, Roopak Sinha, Grego...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are an appealing visual formalism mainly used in the early stages of system design to capture the system requirements. However, if we move towards a...