… COTS product features in order to classify them is a useful activity. On one end it forces the
classifier to look at products … on the results of the classification process, resulting in interesting …

… , thus it should be used together with a noun; for the sake of readability we will sometimes
use the acronym by itself as a noun, in these cases COTS should be read as COTS product. …

… An initial attempt to classify COTS products has been done by Carney and Long in [2]. They
… A more complex classification of COTS products is presented by Morisio and Torchiano in [9]…

… In analysing different trends on component classification and matching, we have found several
… a COTS product? Should this information be based on properties of COTS products? Are …

… After a speculative effort to define and classify COTS products,2 we decided to obtain this
much-needed understanding from the bottom up. We asked people involved in industrial proj…

… COTS based systems developed with a COTS-based approach. In our study we propose a
set of COTS product … The obtained results show that our COTS products characterization can …

… (2) Support for evaluation of both COTs products and the underlying technology. Most …
to COTS components evaluation success; and • Classify the identified processes for COTS …

… strategy for the classification of COTS products in order to explore, learn, assess,
compare and evaluate COTS products. For this, six-dimensional classification strategy (SDCS) …

… a classification scheme of software architectures with respect to the integration of COTS
products. The … The classification scheme allows the comparison of integration costs of different …

… product to be a COTS component. In order to be considered as a viable COTS component,
a software product … A complete classification of the DBMS certification criteria based on our …