This paper presents time proven methods and strategies for creating, managing, and accessing a library of reusable software components and also software engineering strategies for designing and building reusable components with proper planning and execution, these methodologies will bring significant cost saving. In addition, cost-benefit guidelines are developed to help an organization decide ...

Defensive JavaScript (DJS) is a typed subset of JavaScript that guarantees that the functional behavior of a program cannot be tampered with even if it is loaded by and executed within a malicious environment under the control of the attacker. As such, DJS is ideal for writing JavaScript security components, such as bookmarklets, single sign-on widgets, and cryptographic libraries, that may be ...

14 shift in organizational thinking to automate the development of software that is presently coded by hand. However, only until software development is automated will major benefits in productivity, quality, reliability , and performance be possible. Designing components and building generators is difficult. We have made significant progress in understanding how components can be designed and ...

As application developers move toward building component-based web service applications, the traditional tools and development models turn out insufficient to meet the new requirements from rapid evolution due to the speed of the Internet. This paper presents an XML-powered framework designed to build adaptive software components, in order to relieve developers from low-level implementation tas...

Gesture and elaborate forms of nonverbal behaviour have been posited as necessary antecedents to language and shared conceptual understanding. Here we argue that subtle and largely unintentional nonverbal behaviours play a key role in building consensual beliefs within culture. Specifically, people extract a great deal of information from even brief exposure to subtle nonverbal behaviour and mu...

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for programming parallel computers is widely used for building both programs and libraries. Two of the strengths of MPI are its support for libraries and the existence of multiple implementations on many platforms. These two strengths are in conflict, however, when an application wants to use libraries built with different MPI implementations. This p...

Most modern programming languages are complex and feature rich. Whilst this is (sometimes) an advantage for industrial-strength applications, it complicates both language teaching and language research. We describe our experiences in the design of a reduced sub-set of the Java language and its implementation using the Vanilla language development framework. We argue that Vanilla’s component-bas...

Other papers in this conference discuss the experimental requirements for high quality outdoor testing of building components and the subsequent analysis procedures for identifying key parameters that quantify performance. This is important for achieving standardised metrics that characterise the building component of interest, whether it is a passive solar component such as a ventilated window...

The increasing need for device independence and personalization forces organizations to automatically adapt their Web Information Systems (WISs) to individual users and their client platforms. Moreover, the Web’s evolution to a dynamic interaction medium also requires such WISs to be self-adaptive, i.e. to dynamically adjust themselves to a constantly changing reality. Still, there are no gener...

As software systems become increasingly complex to build developers are turning more and more to integrating pre-built components from third party developers into their systems. This use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components in system construction presents new challenges to system architects and designers. This paper is an experience report that describes issues raised when int...