Configurable modularity is a term coined by Raoul de Campo of
IBM Research
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and later expanded on by
Nate Edwards of the same organization, denoting the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals.
[N.P. Edwards, ''On the Architectural Requirements of an Engineered System'', IBM Research Report, RC 6688 (#28797), T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 8/18/1977] In Edwards' view this characterizes all successful reuse systems, and indeed all systems which can be described as "engineered".
See also
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Flow-Based Programming
In computer programming, flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines application software, applications as networks of "black box" process (computer science), processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by ...
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