Prediction, Analysis and Monitoring of System Architecture -- Performance Prediction of J2EE Applications Using Messaging Protocols -- EJBMemProf – A Memory Profiling Framework for Enterprise JavaBeans -- Model-Driven Safety Evaluation with State-Event-Based Component Failure Annotations -- Optimizing Resource Usage in Component-Based Real-Time Systems -- Evaluating Performance Attributes of Layered Software Architecture -- Component-Level Dataflow Analysis -- Architecture and Design of Component-Based Systems -- Exogenous Connectors for Software Components -- Qinna, a Component-Based QoS Architecture -- Architecture Based Deployment of Large-Scale Component Based Systems: The Tool and Principles -- Component-Based Open Middleware Supporting Aspect-Oriented Software Composition -- An Empirical Study on the Specification and Selection of Components Using Fuzzy Logic -- Finding a Needle in the Haystack: A Technique for Ranking Matches Between Components -- Extra-Functional System Properties of Components and Component-Based Systems -- A Contracting System for Hierarchical Components -- Tailored Responsibility Within Component-Based Systems -- Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model -- Real-Time Scheduling Techniques for Implementation Synthesis from Component-Based Software Models -- A Component-Oriented Model for the Design of Safe Multi-threaded Applications -- TeStor: Deriving Test Sequences from Model-Based Specifications -- Components at Work -- A CCA-compliant Nuclear Power Plant Simulator Kernel -- Experience with Component-Based Development of a Telecommunication Service -- Reusable Dialog Component Framework for Rapid Voice Application Development -- Unlocking the Grid -- Experience Report: Design and Implementation of a Component-Based Protection Architecture for ASP.NET Web Services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2005, held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in May 2005 as an adjunct event of ICSE 2005. The 21 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on prediction analysis, and monitoring of system architecture; architecture and design of component-based systems; extra-functional system properties of components and component-based systems; and components at work.