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APSEC
2005
IEEE
16 years 13 days ago
Consistency and Interoperability Checking for Component Interaction Rules
In component-based software development, it is important to ensure interoperability between components based on their unambiguous semantic descriptions, in order to obtain a viabl...
Yan Jin, Jun Han
ICCBSS
2005
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
Specifying Interaction Constraints of Software Components for Better Understandability and Interoperability
A vital issue in the correct use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components is the proper understanding of their functionality, quality attributes and ways of operation. Traditi...
Yan Jin, Jun Han
APSEC
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Enterprise modeling using class and instance models
Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
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EUROMICRO
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Service Redundancy Strategies in Service-Oriented Architectures
Redundancy can improve the availability of components in service-oriented systems. However, predicting and quantifying the effects of different redundancy strategies can be a comp...
Nicholas R. May, Heinz W. Schmidt, Ian E. Thomas