Refinement of Component Model Standards and Conventions

Framework for component model selection

“…In addition to the above work on component model taxonomy and classification, our earlier work on the refinement of component model standards and conventions [6] and its extended version on the component model properties [9] also aim at determining the common characteristics of component model that can be used as a basis to understand the current state of existing component models. In our work, the common characteristics called component model properties are derived by reviewing a number of component model definitions and extracting their commonalities, which are regarded as the 'essence' of a component model.…”

“…Interface characterisation is relevant and applicable to component model. As also explained in [6], component model interface can also be characterised into signature and behaviour, enabling its interface complexity to be measured. Therefore interface complexity is included as one of the selection criteria of the CMS framework.…”

“…Realising the difficulty, efforts have been made to determine the common features shared by the existing component models, despite the differences that exist between them, with the purpose of understanding the current state of component models and hence, looking for the possible room of improvement of the existing models. Examples of such work include the taxonomy of component models [5], the component model classification framework [3] and the refinement of component model standards and conventions [6]. These works tried to identify the common properties that different component models may have and use them (the common properties) as a basis to classify existing component models.…”