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Today, incompatibilities in component specifications make their composition hard to handle in practical terms. Incompatibilities can be classified into three conflict categories: type conflicts, behavioral conflicts, and property conflicts. This paper describes a framework for the identification of compositional conflicts in component-based systems that analyses conflicts of all three categories. Furthermore, the conflict analysis framework can be integrated into the software development process and handles component transformations between different abstraction levels.
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Leicher, A., Busse, S., Süß, J.G. (2005). Analysis of Compositional Conflicts in Component-Based Systems. In: Gschwind, T., Aßmann, U., Nierstrasz, O. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3628. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550679_6
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