Despite the growing importance of multimedia applications, we still know relatively little
about how to specify, design and maintain this class of complex applications in a systematic …

The architecture of a software system plays a crucial role during evolution and maintenance,
as it provides the means to cope with the inherent system complexity by abstracting from …

Component-based software engineering provides for developers the ability to easily reuse
and assemble software entities to build complex software. Component-based specification …

One of the main goals of component-based software engineering (CBSE) is to enable
automated assembly of software components, thus bringing greater quality and reliability …

In this paper we evaluate the use of software architectures in the development of component-
based systems. The evaluation is based on the level of support provided by the software …

Component-based software development (short for CBSD) is to develop software systems
by choosing appropriate components in the distributed environment to assemble a …

There is a critical need for approaches and tools to support software analysis and testing at
the architectural level. This position paper shows how the architectural style description …

The importance of architecture in reuse-driven development is widely recognized.
Architecture provides a framework for establishing a match between available components …

The discipline of software architecture has traditionally been concerned with high-level
design. In particular, a variety of architecture description languages have been developed …