Component-based software development has matured into standard practice in software engineering. Among the advantages of reusing software modules are lower costs, faster development, more manageable code, increased productivity, and improved software quality. As the number of available software components has grown, so has the need for effective component search and retrieval. Traditional searc...

In this paper, we propose a component based methodology for modelling and design of wireless routing protocols. Componentization is a standard methodology for analysis and synthesis of complex systems. Throughout the paper, we use Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol as a case study to demonstrate effectiveness of our methodology. We focus on modelling of three main components: neighbor...

Component orientation is a current trend for creating modern applications. The concept of a component is broad and includes plugins and other units of modularization. Typically, components exhibit dependencies on other components or resources; any such dependencies are requirements needed for the component to function. As a consequence, deploying a component requires deploying the transitive cl...

deployment descriptor (content) z component lifecycle:  already instantiated (entity)  to instantiate and destroy (session)  to instantiate and leave until completion (process) z component location constraints:  on terminal  co-located with an other component z component implementation and component instances discovery rules:  constraints  preferences z component instantiation initial ar...

The discovery of novel chemical reactions or reaction sequences that are able to generate useful chemical products may be regarded as the heart of organic chemistry. We present here concepts and methods on how to find and explore new multi component reactions, especially with automated combinatorial methods. This "combinatorial reaction finding" provides also a powerful tool to the understandin...

A key problem in component-based software development (CBSD) is that developers have incomplete knowledge of components. In many cases, the only available source of such information is experimentation. In this paper we argue that the provision of tool support for automated and repeatable experiments can provide significant value to designers. Such tools, which we call exploration harnesses, pro...