Abstract. Class hierarchies, though theoretically reusable, have generally not seen much practical reuse in applications, due in part to the inflexibility of the inheritance relat...
Implementing application-specific code conforming to architectural rules and conventions can be tedious. FRED is a tool prototype for architecture-oriented programming that takes ...
This paper is about a paradigm shift from the current practice of manually searching for and adapting components and their manual assembly to Generative Programming, which is the a...
Abstract. The conditions under which a formal system for reasoning about structural specifications, built over one logical system could be reused for reasoning about structured spe...
Reuse is one of the key benefits of components. It inherently means that the functionality of a component may be employed only partially. This triggers the issue whether all of th...