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A Software Component Model and Its Preliminary Formalisation

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Formal Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO 2005)

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A software component model should define what components are, and how they can be composed. That is, it should define a theory of components and their composition. Current software component models tend to use objects or port-connector type architectural units as components, with method calls and port-to-port connections as composition mechanisms. However, these models do not provide a proper composition theory, in particular for key underlying concepts such as encapsulation and compositionality. In this paper, we outline our notion of these concepts, and give a preliminary formalisation of a software component model that embodies these concepts.

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  1. School of Computer Science, the University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom

    Kung-Kiu Lau & Zheng Wang

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Universita’ degli studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Mario Ornaghi

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  1. Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098, Amsterdam, SJ, The Netherlands

    Frank S. de Boer

  2. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9512, 2300, Leiden, RA, The Netherlands

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  3. Centre Equitation, VERIMAG, 2 Avenue de Vignate, 38610, Grenoble-Gières, France

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  4. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel,Hermann-Rodewald-Straße 3, 24118, Kiel, Germany

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Lau, KK., Ornaghi, M., Wang, Z. (2006). A Software Component Model and Its Preliminary Formalisation. In: de Boer, F.S., Bonsangue, M.M., Graf, S., de Roever, WP. (eds) Formal Methods for Components and Objects. FMCO 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11804192_1

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