The ever-increasing complexity and diversity of consumer products drives the creation of product families (products with many commonalties and few differences) and product populations (products with many commonalties but also with many differences). For the latter, we use an approach based on composition of software components, organized in packages. This influences our configuration management...

This paper details the implementation of a software framework that aids the development of distributed and self-configurable software systems. This framework is an instance of a novel integration strategy called SoSAA (SOcially Situated Agent Architecture), which combines Component-Based Software Engineering [15] and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, drawing its inspiration from hybrid agent...

Because of the cost and complexity of building bespoke service management systems, telecommunications management developers are moving toward the use of off-the-shelf componentware to satisfy their management requirements. However, a crucial problem with such an approach is the ability to integrate components to realise integrated management solutions. This paper identifies the technology requi...

We present a software component architecture for supply chain management across dynamic organisational networks. The local management in the architecture is done by existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, warehouse management systems (WMS) and transportation management systems (TMS). The integral management in the architecture is executed by supply chain engines (SCEs). These softw...

abstract background: professional development is reiterated in the new definition of modern organizations as a serious undertaking of organizations. this article aims to present and describe a prescriptive model to increase the quality of professional development of iranian nurses within an organization‑based framework. materials and methods: this article is an outcome of the results of a study...

One of the basic problems when developing component-based systems is that it is difficult to keep track of components and their interrelationships. This problem emerges already in the requirement phase, in which we want to identify and select the most appropriate components. Later, during the assembly and deployment process, or when upgrading components, the problem of components identification...

Classical software configuration management which deals with source code versioning becomes insufficient when most components are distributed in binary form. As an important aspect of software configuration, protocol configuration also encounters those problems. This paper focuses on solving protocol component versioning issues for protocol configuration management on embedded system, incorpora...

In this position paper we examine the various risks in component-based development. We divide the risks into six main categories and argue that they not only overlap but also cut across the various application development stages. We propose a risk management mechanism based on identifying risk management techniques for each individual risk category and then integrating the various individual te...