In component based software engineering, an application is build by composing trusted and reusable units of execution, the components. A composition is formed by connecting the com...
We show that an XML DTD (Document Type Definition) can be viewed as the fixed point of a parametric content model. We then use natural transformations from the source content mo...
To our point of view, adaptability is a key characteristic of components and should be at the heart of any proper component model. However, contrarily to the object crystal-box mod...
The use of scenarios has become a popular technique for requirements elicitation and specification building. Since scenarios capture only partial descriptions of system behavior, ...
A new publish/subscribe capability is presented: the ability to predict the likelihood that a subscription will be matched at some point in the future. Composite subscriptions con...