artifact. We propose to codify the management of change in a software system by means of reuse contracts that record the protocol between managers and users of a reusable asset. Just as real world contracts can be extended, amended and customised, reuse contracts are subject to parallel changes encoded

In this paper, a case study investigating the experiences from evolution and modification of reusable assets in product-line architectures is presented involving two swedish companies, Axis Communications AB and Securitas Larm AB. Key persons in these organisations have been interviewed

on domainspecific architectures and open interface standards. The STARS Asset Library Open Architecture Framework (ALOAF) addresses the exchange of reusable assets among diverse libraries, and the definition of an asset library platform upon which portable reuse tools may be constructed. 1 Introduction A reuse

Euro RFID project running over 3 years and partly funded (€7,5 million) by the European Union. The objective of the BRIDGE project is to research, develop and implement tools to enable the deployment of EPCglobal applications in Europe. Thirty interdisciplinary partners from 12 countries (Europe and Asia) are working together on: Hardware development,

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This paper explains the recent decline in bank asset quality using the notion of information reusability. Banks are viewed as information processors; they exist because of their advantage in extracting the surplus associated with the reusability of borrower-specific information. It is shown that a

IT by building and leveraging three assets: highly competent IT human resources, a reusable technology infrastructure, and a strong IT-business partner relationship. These three assets are interrelated in the sense that they tend to strengthen- or weaken- one another. Together, they allow a firm to apply

assets often do so at the expense of neglecting issues concerned with performance. The area of Software Performance Engineering (SPE) provides various measures for determining the responsiveness of the software aspects of a computing system. Applying SPE methods to reusable software would aid future

One of the most important characteristic of a software reuse library is apparently the nature or type of assets that are stored in it. Not only source code is stored in the library but other assets including analysis documents, design descriptions, Design and analysis diagrams in UML notation

Reusing assets during application engineering promises to improve the efficiency of systems development. However, in order to benefit from reusable assets, application engineering processes must incorporate when and how to use the reusable assets during single system development. However, when