After years of research and industrial development, software component technology [Szy98]
has become well established as an important approach to engineering complex and flexible …

In this paper, we present an automatic and flexible approach for software component
substitution. When a component is removed from an assembly, most existing approaches …

In this paper, we present a search‐based automatic many‐to‐one component substitution
mechanism. When a component is removed from an assembly to overcome component …

When developing software components in a distributed environment, certain issues
regarding the component specifications must be handled: 1. specifications need to …

Software modules and components have always played a key role in software engineering,
primarily as key abstractions that embody the principle of information hiding, using …

All along its life-cycle, a software may be subject to numerous changes that may affect its
coherence with its original documentation. Moreover, despite the general agreement that up …

In the area of component software, the work so far has concentrated primarily on the key
issues of architecture specification and component updating. However, the problems of …

The designers of modern programming languages and runtime systems have devoted
considerable efforts to ensuring that today's software systems can, in some circumstances …

The goal of this thesis is to design concepts of a visual development environment for a
component model with support for the hierarchical composition, reusability, configuration …

Current component technologies provide only a primitive support for configuration
management. For applications composed of components provided by independent vendors …