Component-Based Architectures and Change -- Data Encapsulation in Software Components -- Binary Change Set Composition -- Automated and Unanticipated Flexible Component Substitution -- Dynamic Adaptation of Aspect-Oriented Components -- Component Based Game Development – A Solution to Escalating Costs and Expanding Deadlines? -- Quality of Service, Runtime Verification and Monitoring -- Performance Assessment for e-Government Services: An Experience Report -- An Approach for QoS Contract Negotiation in Distributed Component-Based Software -- A Study of Execution Environments for Software Components -- Monitoring Architectural Properties in Dynamic Component-Based Systems -- Extra-Functional Properties and Compositional Reasoning -- A Modeling Approach to Analyze the Impact of Error Propagation on Reliability of Component-Based Systems -- Performance-Driven Interface Contract Enforcement for Scientific Components -- Integration of Time Issues into Component-Based Applications -- Slicing of Component Behavior Specification with Respect to Their Composition -- An Execution-Level Component Composition Model Based on Component Testing Information -- Web Services, Late Composition and Verification -- Capturing Web Services Provider Constraints – An Algorithmic Approach -- Soya: A Programming Model and Runtime Environment for Component Composition Using SSDL -- Experience with Safe Dynamic Reconfigurations in Component-Based Embedded Systems -- A Framework for Contract-Based Collaborative Verification and Validation of Web Services -- Towards Composing Software Components in Both Design and Deployment Phases.