Energy consumption for mobile and wireless communication device, such as cell phones, has long been an important aspect for both designers and customers. This paper shows how a cognitive radio (CR) framework can help to reduce system energy consumption ...

Software component adaptation is a difficult problem to be solved in component-based software development. In this paper, we focus on a framework of component adaptation in which several adaptations are involved. The framework is described as a finite ...

Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for multiple component versions. These features help to overcome some ...

Building a distributed system from third-party components introduces a set of problems, mainly related to compatibility and communication. Our approach to solve these problems is to build an adaptor which forces the system to exhibit only a set of safe ...

Component based software engineering (CBSE), can in principle lead to savings in the time and cost of software development, by encouraging software reuse. However the reality is that CBSE has not been widely adopted. From a technical perspective, the ...