@techreport{TR-IC-04-02,
  number = {IC-04-02},
  author = {Ricardo de Mendonça da Silva and Fernando Castor Filho and 
         Paulo Asterio de C. Guerra and Cec{\'{\i}}lia Mary F. Rubira},
  title = {An Architectural Approach for Fault-Tolerant Component 
       Composition based on Exception Handling},
  month = {March},
  year = {2004}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 18 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
        The development of modern component-based software systems
        usually needs to integrate autonomous component-systems which
        are developed independently from each other. Examples of such
        component-systems include COTS components, legacy software
        systems, and Web Services. For developing this new kind of
        software system, we need innovative software engineering
        approaches that rely on the system's software architecture to
        achieve the desired quality properties of the resulting
        system, such as fault tolerance. In this paper, we propose an
        architectural approach to the dependable composition of
        component-systems based on composition contracts and an
        exception handling scheme which considers the concurrent
        execution of architectural components.
  }
}