In a component-based software system the components are specified, designed and implemented with the intention to be reused, and are assembled in various contexts in order to pro...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Andrea Polini, Patrizio Pelli...
—Dynamic reconfiguration – the ability to hot swap a component, or to introduce a new component into the system – is essential to supporting evolutionary change in long-live ...
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...
Hierarchical software components offer interesting characteristics for the development of complex applications. However, supporting the deployment of such applications is difficult...
A number of emerging distributed platforms include xed and robust workstations but, like dynamic and pervasive networks, are often built from mobile and resource-constrained device...