Component based system development is now a well accepted design approach in software engineering. Numerous component models have been proposed and for most of them, specific software tools allow building Component Based System (CBS). Although these tools perform several checks on the built system, few of them provide formal verification of behavioural properties nor performance evaluation of t...

Frequent modifications on component-based software systems are required to accommodate to the rapid changes of external requirements, and the ability of agilely adapt to changes is considered as an important metrics for these systems. Aiming at this problem, our main concern is to present an agility evaluation method for component-based systems. In this method, interior structure of a component...

The idea of building a device out of separate parts is gaining more common practice in the software industry. Software parts are designed with the potential for reuse. The reuse of the software parts promises to reduce development cost and time. This process triggers some new usability issues, especially when the user interface (UI) is also designed as a complex of several parts. A study is car...

The lack of interoperability and integration standards is severely hindering manufacturing productivity. To address this problem, a General Motion Control (GMC) Testbed has been developed at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with one of its goals to validate the Open Modular Architecture Controller (OMAC) interface specification for reconfigurable, plug-and-play open-archite...

We propose the use of partial evaluation to automatically and systematically configure software components in a predictable way. We base our approach on a declaration language that enables the component developer to describe the genericity and configurability of the application components. This information is checked and used to derive components specialized with respect to a given context.

In this paper we report on our experience developing the Eye OCL Software (EOS) evaluator, a Java component for efficient OCL evaluation. We first motivate the need for an efficient implementation of OCL in order to cope with novel usages of the language. We then discuss some aspects that, based on our experience, should be taken into account when building an OCL evaluator for medium-large scen...

One of the many difficulties in making Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) a reality is that software components may require adaptation when constructing applications from COTS components. We survey the literature to discover various approaches to component adaptation and evaluated these approaches against a set of requirements for component adaptation mechanisms. We also discuss differ...

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software component is developed by a commercial vendor and is sold “as is”. There is no single, accepted definition for a COTS software component. Here, we assume the COTS software component of coarse granularity (often referred to as ‘software package’) which is self-contained, independent, and with a “significant aggregate functionality and complexity” (Brown 1...

Automated component–level evaluation of information retrieval (IR) is the main focus of this paper. We present a review of the current state of web–based and component–level evaluation. Based on these systems, propositions are made for a comprehensive framework for web service–based component–level IR system evaluation. The advantages of such an approach are considered, as well as the requireme...