Assembly, Disassembly, Adaptation and Replacement of Software Components

Component-based software development is of paramount importance for rigorous system design methodologies. It is founded on a paradigm: complex systems can be obtained by assembling components, thereby main work focuses on the methods and techniques of component modeling, adapting and assembling. However, these attempts have not established a more systematic approach for component operations yet. In the paper, we investigate operations of changing components (assembly, disassembly, adaptation and replacement) and assembly relationships among components in order to construct a set of assembly rules, optimize solutions to the assemblies of components.