To our point of view, adaptability is a key characteristic of components and should be at the heart of any proper component model. However, contrarily to the object crystal-box mod...
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Interface theories have been proposed to support incremental design and independent implementability. Incremental design means that the compatibility checking of interfaces can pr...
Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. Henzinger, Barbara Jobstm...
Crosscutting concerns are pervasive in embedded software, because of the various constraints imposed by the environment and the stringent QOS requirements on the system. This pape...
Thomas Cottenier, Aswin van den Berg, Tzilla Elrad
After a quick overview of the field of study known as “Lexical Semantics”, where we advocate the need of accessing additional information besides syntax and Montaguestyle sema...
Christian Bassac, Bruno Mery, Christian Retor&eacu...