The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
In a component-based development approach system integration generally implies the packaging and deployment of a group of software components on hardware units, possibly hiding th...
Fine grained concurrency and accurate timing can be essential for embedded hardware and software systems. These requirements should be reflected in the specification and must be c...
In this paper we adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changi...
The maintenance of global integrity constraints in database federations is still a challenge since traditional integrity constraint management techniques cannot be applied to such ...