Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
For several different reasons, such as changes in the business or technological environment, the configuration of a system may need to evolve during execution. Support for such ev...
The Vienna Component Framework (VCF) supports the interoperability and composability of components across different component models, a facility that is lacking in existing compon...
Johann Oberleitner, Thomas Gschwind, Mehdi Jazayer...
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...
Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...