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Automated and Unanticipated Flexible Component Substitution

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2007)

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In this paper, we present an automatic and flexible approach for software component substitution. When a component is removed from an assembly, most existing approaches perform component-to-component substitution, relying on the fact that such a candidate component is available, which is hardly to happen because the constraints on its interfaces are too strong. When such a component does not exist, it would be more flexible to allow a single component to be replaced by a whole component assembly. We propose such an automatic substitution mechanism which does not need the changes to be anticipated and preserves the quality of the assembly.

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  1. LGI2P - Ecole des Mines d’Alès, Nîmes, France

    Nicolas Desnos, Christelle Urtado & Sylvain Vauttier

  2. LIRMM - UMR 5506 - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Marianne Huchard

  3. Département informatique, UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Guy Tremblay

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Desnos, N., Huchard, M., Urtado, C., Vauttier, S., Tremblay, G. (2007). Automated and Unanticipated Flexible Component Substitution. In: Schmidt, H.W., Crnkovic, I., Heineman, G.T., Stafford, J.A. (eds) Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73551-9_3

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