Paola Inverardi
University of L'Aquila
via Vetoio, I-67010 Coppito, L'Aquila, Italy
Fax: +39 0862 433180
inverard@univaq.it
http://univaq.it/~inverard
Abstract
In recent years the focus of software engineering is continuosly
moving towards systems of larger dimensions and complexity.
Software production is becoming more and more involved
with distributed applications running on heterogeneous networks,
while emerging
technologies such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are
becoming a market reality.
Last Updated: May 22, 2000
by Elisabetta Ferrando
SAs have in the last years been considered,
both by academia and software industries, as a way to improve the
dependability of large complex software products, while reducing
development times and costs. SA represents the most promising
approach to tackle the problem of scaling up in software engineering
applications manageable. The originality of the
SA approach is to focus on the overall organization of a large
software system (the glue) using abstractions of individual
components. This approach makes it possible to design and apply
tractable methods for the development, analysis, validation, and
maintenance of large software systems. In this talk I will present our
research efforts in the area of analysis
of dynamic properties of component based applications with
reference to the benefits that might come from the use of specific SA
integration contexts (styles).