In an environment of constant change and variation driven by competition and innovation, a
software service can rarely remain stable. Being able to manage and control the evolution of …

Reuse and composition are increasingly advocated and put into practice in modern software
engineering. However, the software entities that are to be reused to build an application, eg …

Driven by the vast proliferation of mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, dynamic
software adaptation is becoming one of the most common terms in Software Engineering …

Component-Based Software Engineering focuses on the reuse of existing software
components. In practice, most components cannot be integrated directly into an application …

Reuse and integration of heterogeneous software parts are promises of Component-Based
Software Development. However, current industrial approaches suffer from a limited support …

Standardization in Web services simplifies integration. However, it does not remove the
need for adapters due to possible heterogeneity among service interfaces and protocols. In …

Component-based software engineering aims at develo** software systems by
assembling pre-existing components to build applications. One advantage gained from this …

Incorporating security features is one of the most important and challenging tasks in
designing distributed systems. Over the last decade, researchers and practitioners have …

To fully exploit the potential of cloud computing, design and development of cloud
applications should be eased and supported. The OASIS TOSCA standard enables …

The idea of reusing software components has been present in software engineering for
several decades. Although the software industry developed massively in recent decades …