Being an important means of reducing development costs, behavior specification of software components facilitates reuse of a component and even reuse of a component’s architecture (assembly). However, since typically only a part of the components’ functionality is actually used in the new context, a significant part of the behavior specification may be superfluous. As a result, it may be hard t...

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We most often seem to willing to accept commercial marketplace hardware and system software components for direct incorporation in the products we engineer, or use them in supporting roles in respect to design, development, and maintenance. While this utilization is due to wide spread availability and cost factors, it has the negative side effect of introducing unnecessary complexity into the p...

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the WICSA, QoSA, and CBSE 2016 conferences. While we had separate calls for papers, separate chairs and review processes for each conference, we had a unified, stronger community with a joint program committee. Even though the proceedings separate the papers in distinct chapters for each conference, there is a single conference program designed jointly b...

Since the mid-1990s, in the course of the raising commercial use of modern ICT and the transformation of traditional to digital business, the business model concept has emerged as a promising unit of analysis in business practice that has attracted increasing interest in research. To describe business models, they are usually broken down to single business model components. Unfortunately, no un...