Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

Nowadays, with the development of software reuse, software developers are paying more
attention to component‐related technologies, which have been mostly applied in the …

When designing a software system, architects make a series of design decisions that directly
impact the system's quality. The number of available design alternatives grows rapidly with …

Abstract Component-Based Software Engineering is concerned with the assembly of
preexisting software components that lead to software systems responding to client specific …

Design decisions software architects make directly impact system quality. Real-world
systems involve a large number of such decisions, and each decision is typically influenced …

Software plays a vital role in most of the embedded systems including safety and mission-
critical systems in avionics, automotive, nuclear and medical applications. Along with the …

Component selection is a crucial problem in Component Based Software Engineering
(CBSE). CBSE is concerned with the assembly of pre-existing software components that …

The lack of standard formalism for defining software metrics has led to ambiguity in their
definitions which hampers their applicability, comparison and implementation. In this paper …

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) uses components to construct systems,
being a means to increase productivity by promoting software reuse and increasing software …

The selection of a component within a set of possible candidates which offer similar
functionalities requires the evaluation of the candidate components using objective …