Producing usable documentation has always been a tedious task, and even communicating important knowledge about a system among collaborators is difficult. This paper describes an ...
– Building large software systems out of existing software components can save time and cost. These software components range from architectural and design components to binary c...
User interface development is a time and resource consuming task. Thus, reusing existing UI components is a desirable approach for rapid UI development. To keep UIs maintainable, ...
Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on ne...
—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 ...