The use of components in development of complex software systems can surely have various benefits. Their testing, however, is still one of the open issues in software engineering...
Modeling the dependencies between provided and required services within a software component is necessary for several reasons, such as automated component adaptation and architectu...
We prove that if G = (VG, EG) is a finite, simple, and undirected graph with κ components and independence number α(G), then there exist a positive integer k ∈ N and a functi...
Software components, if usedproperly, ofj~r many software engineering benefits. Yet, they also pose many original challenges starting fi'om quality assurance and ranging to a...
A common theme in information security is protection of trusted software components against unauthorized access by untrusted users. In the context of distributed object technologi...