On behalf of the Organizing Committee I am pleased to present the proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE). CBSE is concerned with the development of software-intensive systems from reusable parts (components), the development of reusable parts, and system maintenance and improvement by means of component replacement and customization. CBSE 2006 was the ninth in a series of events that promote a science and technology foundation for achieving predictable quality in software systems through the use of software component technology and its associated...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2010, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2010.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote abstracts, 20 emerging research papers, 11 research challenge poster papers, and 3 tool demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 100 submissions.