Managing variability of self-customizable systems through composable components

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-95

  Şora, Ioana ^a   Creţu, Vladimir ^a   Verbaeten, Pierre ^b   Berbers, Yolande ^b  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Requirements driven automated runtime composition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REUSABILITY;

COMPOSABLE COMPONENTS; MULTI-FLOW ARCHITECTURES; REQUIREMENTS-DRIVEN AUTOMATED RUNTIME COMPOSITION; SELF-CUSTOMIZABLE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 15244339867     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.214     Document Type: Article

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