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Analyzing Component-Based Systems on the Basis of Architectural Constraints

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Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN 2011)

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Component-based development (CBD) is a promising approach to master design complexity. In addition, the knowledge about the architecture of a component system can help in establishing important system properties, which in general is computationally hard because of the state space explosion problem. Extending previous work, we here investigate the novel class of disjoint circular wait free component systems and show how we can use the architectural information to establish a condition for the important property of deadlock-freedom in polynomial time. A running example is included. We use the framework of interaction systems, but our result carries over to other CBD models.

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Lambertz, C., Majster-Cederbaum, M. (2012). Analyzing Component-Based Systems on the Basis of Architectural Constraints. 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_5

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