The selection process is a crucial activity of the development of COTS-based systems. A key step of the evaluation of COTS components carried out during selection is the matching b...
Carina Alves, Xavier Franch, Juan Pablo Carvallo, ...
Distributed programming environments commonly restrict programmers to one form of intercomponent interaction. This forces programmers to emulate other interaction styles in terms o...
This paper addresses the unavoidable problem of dynamic reconfiguration in component-based system with a hierarchical component model. The presented solution is based on (1) allowi...
Because of its facilities for the generalization and specialization of concepts and the unambiguous terminology they provide, ontologies are being used for the representation of re...
Features express the variabilities and commonalities among programs in a software product line (SPL). A feature model defines the valid combinations of features, where each combin...