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Locality in modular systems

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1982)

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Modularity of programs is studied from a semantic point of view. A simple model of modular systems and modularization mechanisms is presented, together with correctness criteria for modular systems. A concept of locality of modular systems is defined; it is a property which “good” modular decompositions should have. The locality of certain kinds of modularization mechanisms is studied, and the results are applied to parameterless procedures.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

    R. J. R. Back & H. Mannila

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Mogens Nielsen Erik Meineche Schmidt

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Back, R.J.R., Mannila, H. (1982). Locality in modular systems. In: Nielsen, M., Schmidt, E.M. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0012752

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