The essence of architectural styles is component communication. In this paper, we relate architectural styles to adaptors in the GenVoca model of software construction. GenVoca components are refinements that have a wide range of implementations, from binaries to rule-sets of program transformation systems. We explain that architectural styles can (1) be understood as refinements (like other Ge...

Software components are now widely used in the development of systems. However, incompatibilities between their observable interfaces may happen and then make their composition impossible. Software adaptation aims at generating as automatically as possible new components called adaptors whose role is to compensate such incompatibilities. Since development of adaptors is costly, it is crucial to...

Adaptors are component proteins of junctional complexes in all epithelia, including the seminiferous epithelium of the mammalian testis. They recruit other regulatory and structural proteins to the site of both anchoring junctions (such as cell-cell actin-based adherens junctions [AJs], e.g., ectoplasmic specialization [ES] and tubulobulbar complex, which are both testis-specific cell-cell acti...

Software adaptation aims at generating software pieces called adaptors to compensate interface and behavioural mismatch between components or services. This is crucial to foster reuse. So far, adaptation techniques have proceeded by computing global adaptors for closed systems made up of a fixed set of components. This is not satisfactory when the systems may evolve, with components entering or...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a rapid adaptation paradigm to determine whether visual perception and visual mental imagery of faces recruit the same early perceptual processes. The early effect of face and object adaptors, either perceived or visualized, on test stimuli, was assessed by measuring the amplitude of the N170/VPP complex, typically much larger for faces than ...

Climate extreme is one of Zambia's most pressing issues impacting socioeconomic development. This paper assessed the impact adaptation to climate extremes, as well effectiveness strategies mitigate negative on food production. A total 270 smallholder farmers were sampled. Descriptive analysis and endogenous switching regression model applied. According study's findings, adapted farms non-adapte...

This paper describes modeler independent application programming interfaces called adaptors. A solid modeler is augmented with an adaptor so as to provide a standard procedural interface to applications and function as a geometric server. Adaptors give the applications portability and free the application programmers from the details of specific modelers. Adaptors have been developed at USC for...