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General References    |    Web Resources    |    Collaborating Organizations

Below are materials covering the topic of COTS evaluation. We hope you find this information useful.

General References

General References

Kazman, R. & Port, D. (Eds.), COTS-Based Software Systems, Third International Conference, ICCBSS 2004, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, February 1-4, 2004. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2004. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iccbss/iccbss2004.html

Erdogmus, M. & Weng, T. (Eds.), COTS-Based Software Systems, Second International Conference, ICCBSS 2003, Ottawa, Canada, February 10-13, 2003. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2003 http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iccbss/iccbss2003.html

Dean, J. & Gravel, A. (Eds.), COTS-Based Software Systems: First International Conference, ICCBSS 2002, Orlando, FL, USA, February 4-6, 2002. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2002. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iccbss/iccbss2002.html

Garlan, D., Allen, R. and Ockerbloom, J., Architectural Mismatch: or Why It's Hard to Build Systems Out of Existing Parts, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Seattle, 1995

Kontio, J., A Case Study in Applying a Systematic Method for COTS Selection," Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Berlin, 1996

Web Resources

Note: The following is a list of links to locations that are not part of the SEI COTS-Based Systems Initiative Web pages. Some links connect with web pages maintained by collaborating organizations, such as the National Research Council of Canada. Other links connect to web pages of vendors and industry standards groups. Inclusion of a product or technology in this set of links should not be interpreted as an SEI endorsement.

Collaborating Organizations

Software Engineering Group at the National Research Council of Canada

European Software Institute

External Links

Microsoft Component Object Model (COM)

Distributed COM (DCOM)

Java

JavaBeans

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

RemoteMethod Invocation (RMI)

Object Management Group (OMG) OMA and CORBA

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