According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Non-functional specifications of software components are considered an important asset in constructing dependable systems, since they enable early Quality of Service (QoS) evaluati...
, are to address what we perceive as the most pressing shortcomings of current reflective middleware platforms. First, performance: in the worst case, this needs to be on a par wit...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Michael Clarke, Ni...
incompatibility. We introduce Mona, an operational email system embodying this automatic approach. Mona establishes conversation context independently of user actions through the ...
In the last few decades, several studies have found the same technology implemented in highly similar organizational settings to be associated with very different consequences for...