The paper describes the SysMan approach to interactive configuration management of distributed software components (objects). Domains are used to group objects to apply policy and for convenient naming of objects. Configuration Management involves using a domain browser to locate relevant objects within the domain service; creating new objects which form a distributed service; allocating these ...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is now recognized by the Software Engineering world as important aspect of software development especially for large and complex software systems. It has also become a vital part of the most widely used software process improvement frameworks. Software Product Line is a new phenomenon that has gained considerable attention during the last decade as an eff...

Customizable operating systems, database systems, and communication subsystems have demonstrated many advantages of customization, including considerable performance improvements. One common approach for constructing customizable software is to implement it as a collection of modules that can be configured in different combinations to provide customized variants of the software. Typically, ad h...

The environments they operate are demanding and performance delivery is crucial under harsh conditions. Dictated by application needs, customised levels of configurability control and analysis are essential. The objectives of the work presented in this paper are to provide intelligent means of connectivity for integrating diverse network technologies, and tools for configuring and monitoring mi...

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1. Use a Logic Programming basis for defining both structure and data. The LP dialect used for this purpose is known as the Information System COnstrution language (ISCO), and is partially described in [1]. 2. Structure the information in an object-oriented, multiple inheritance scheme. This approach allows for a good re-use of information and is quite intuitive in specifying complex class hier...

Configuration management tools are at the heart of every software project. Thus, it should not be surprising that they play a central role in Open Source projects as well. Most prominent in use is CVS, which is—indeed—an Open Source system in its own right. In this position paper we examine why CVS plays such a major role in the management of Open Source projects. Furthermore, we raise some are...

Short development life cycles, the importance of timeto-market and fast changes in technology influence the requirements engineering process. Requirements are exposed to changes during the entire development life cycle, and decisions related to requirements and system design are moving toward developers. For this reason it is important to keep requirement changes under control during the entire...

Dynamically bound systems are those software systems which are able to incorporate executable components into themselves during execution. Such systems are clearly very flexible; however, they suffer from problems associated with this flexibility. These problems, which are similar to some of the problems addressed by configuration management, include how to locate and select components, how to ...

An object model for evolving engineering design data is presented. The model is based on prototype objects and includes tree transformations for object generalization and specialization during a design process. In addition to attribute data, objects contain constraints for checking their validity. Objects are arranged into component hierarchies, and constraints can express dependencies between ...