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Intentional Automata: A Context-Dependent Model for Component Connectors

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In recent years, a promising line of research on formal compositional models for component connectors [3-6, 8, 9] has demonstrated the merits of having connectors as first class concepts, and incrementally increased the expressiveness of the interaction protocols that can be captured compositionally. Typically, in these models connectors are entitled to have their own specification and abstractions. Through composition, just like components, connectors can be combined and yield more sophisticated connectors.

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Costa, D., Niqui, M., Rutten, J. (2012). Intentional Automata: A Context-Dependent Model for Component Connectors. In: Arbab, F., Sirjani, M. (eds) Fundamentals of Software Engineering. FSEN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29320-7_22

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