Dynamic module replacement-the ability to hot swap a component's implementation at
runtime-is fundamental to supporting evolutionary change in long-lived and highly-available …

The predominant design of object-oriented programming languages today provides
insufficient support for interface abstraction and implementation inheritance, a limitation that …

Existing container-based development strategies provide solutions to the problem of
encapsulating cross-cutting concerns in component-based software systems. These …

To provide performance trade-offs to users, reusable component libraries typically include
multiple implementation variants for each interface. This paper introduces a scalable notion …

With the size and complexity of software systems growing at a very fast pace, one of the
concerns that we have to address is that of tractable reasoning. We need to make sure that …

Parameterization is an effective technique for building flexible, reusable software. When
dealing with parameterized components, an important concern is the time at which …

Parameterized components provide an effective way of building scalable, reliable, flexible
software. Techniques have been developed for reasoning about parameterized components …

Lazy initialization is a technique that can be used to improve the performance of software
components. The startup cost of any component is greatly reduced, and the cost of …

Dynamic reconfiguration refers to changing, updating, or otherwise modifying a system
during execution. Dynamic reconfiguration requires changes in a module to be localized …

Despite significant progress in programming technology, large-scale software development
remains expensive and error prone. We identify four problems with object-oriented …