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Distributed Feature Composition: A Virtual Architecture for Telecommunications Services

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Michael Jackson,

Pamela ZaveAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 24, Issue 10

Pages 831 - 847

https://doi.org/10.1109/32.729683

Published: 01 October 1998 Publication History

Abstract

Distributed Feature Composition (DFC) is a new technology for feature specification and composition, based on a virtual architecture offering benefits analogous to those of a pipe-and-filter architecture. In the DFC architecture, customer calls are processed by dynamically assembled configurations of filter-like components: each component implements an applicable feature, and communicates with its neighbors by featureless internal calls that are connected by the underlying architectural substrate.

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Volume 24, Issue 10

October 1998

126 pages

ISSN:0098-5589

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