@techreport{TR-IC-98-14,
  number = {IC-98-14},
  author = {Alexandre Oliva and Islene Calciolari Garcia and Luiz Eduardo Buzato},
  title = {The Reflexive Architecture of {G}uaraná},
  month = {April},
  year = {1998}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 13 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      This text describes a reflexive software architecture called
      Guaraná.  Its run-time meta-level protocol has been designed
      to achieve a very high degree of flexibility, reconfigurability,
      security and meta-level code reuse.  {\em Composers} are {\em
      meta-objects} that can be used to combine other meta-objects
      (that may be composers themselves) into dynamically modifyable
      {\em meta-configurations}.  Instances of a class may have
      different meta-configurations, either determined explicitly or
      derived from the context in which every single object was
      created.
    \par
      A free Java-based implementation of the language-independent 
      Guaraná reflexive architecture is currently available.
  }
}