History of Component Technology
Explores some of the key events of object-oriented programming and components in the last 50 years in the greater context of general computing history.
url: www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library...
A Plea for Grey-Box Components
by Martin Buchi and Wolfgang Weck.
url: www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/FoCBS/buechi.html
Redundant Arrays of Independent Components
A technology that uses a group of identical or similar software components to provide higher reliability, better performance, or more flexibility.
url: www.ics.uci.edu/~cliu1/RAIC/