Hi Saga, Florian Schintke found a interesting paper on component reuasability. I think its awesome, although its results are probably difficult to apply to real world. However, it takes the Entropy of component domains into account. Consider the entrpopy in Grid middleware, and you immediately agree with the paper results! :-)) Thanks Florian! Cheers, Andre. ----- Forwarded message from Florian Schintke <schintke@zib.de> -----

From: Florian Schintke <schintke@zib.de> To: gat@gridlab.org Subject: [Gat] Interesting view on software libraries Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:21:37 +0200

Hi,

this is an interesting point of view on software libraries, component based systems and reusability of code.

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