Abstract. Automata-based interface and protocol specifications provide an elegant framework to capture and automatically verify the interactive behavior of component-based software...
es are extended with a factorable, abstract state, and methods of interfaces are extended with state transformation behaviours. A new programming language command, the USE statemen...
: Specifying behavioral specifications for components apart from the conventional syntactic interface specifications can be very useful in component based system development. Preco...
r introduces an abstract framework for the specification of components with multiple require and provide interfaces that allows the specification of multiple access to a single ...
Abstract. Current interface descriptions are poor in describing components, because they only provide an external view on a component and they do not lay down how components intera...