In the mid-nineties, mobile code was on the rise and, in particular, there was a growing interest in autonomously moving code components, called mobile agents. In 1997, we publish...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
-- Reuse of large-grain software components offers the potential for significant savings in application development cost and time. Successful component reuse and substitutability ...
Nenad Medvidovic, Peyman Oreizy, Richard N. Taylor
—Most analysis methods for real-time systems assume that all the components of the system are at roughly the same stage of development and can be expressed in a single notation, ...
George S. Avrunin, James C. Corbett, Laura K. Dill...
Formal specification methods are not often applied in industrial projects, despite their advantages and the maturity of theories and tools. The scarce familiarity of practitioners...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...