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Automating Integration of Heterogeneous COTS Components

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Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components (ICSR 2006)

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Mismatches make COTS components difficult to be incorporated. In this paper, an approach is presented to eliminate mismatches among COTS components, which can truly consider COTS components as black boxes. In the approach, only the assembly description of components is required, based on which adaptors for resolving mismatches can be generated automatically. This paper also described an agent-based GUI implementation of the approach.

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  1. Institute of Software, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Wenpin Jiao & Hong Mei

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  1. Dept. of Control and Computer Engineering, Software Engineering Research Group, Politecnico di Torino, 10129,, Torino, Italy

    Maurizio Morisio

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Jiao, W., Mei, H. (2006). Automating Integration of Heterogeneous COTS Components. In: Morisio, M. (eds) Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components. ICSR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4039. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11763864_3

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