A Component Framework Based on High-Level Replacement Systems

This paper is based on two general concepts. The first one is a generic component framework for system modeling presented at FASE 2002, which is especially useful for graphand net-based modeling techniques. The second one is the concept of high-level replacement systems, which has been studied within the last decade as an abstraction of the DPO-approach for graph transformation systems in a categorical framework, with instantiations to a large class of different modeling techniques. In this contribution both concepts are combined in the sense that the generic transformation concept – essentially used in the component framework – is instantiated by high-level replacement systems. As the main result we show how the properties for transformations required in the component framework can be shown in the case of high-level replacement systems. Moreover, some interesting extensions concerning multiple interfaces, union, and operational semantics of components are proposed.