A model of context-dependent component connectors

Automata for Context-Dependent Connectors

Recent approaches to component-based software engineering employ coordinating connectors to compose components into software systems. For maximum flexibility and reuse, such connectors can themselves be composed, resulting in an expressive calculus of connectors whose semantics encompasses complex combinations of synchronisation, mutual exclusion, non-deterministic choice and state-dependent be...

Intentional Automata: A Context-Dependent Model for Component Connectors - (Extended Abstract)

Testing and numerical modelling of Steel-Concrete-Steel with stud bolts connectors subject to push-out loading

Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich panels are composed of two steel plates with low thicknesses and high densities and strengths and one thick layer between both plates with low strength and density known as core that is composed of concrete. Cohesive material-epoxy resin or shear connectors are usually used to connect the plates to the concrete core. SCS sandwich composites are being develope...

Connector Colouring I: Synchronisation and Context Dependency

Reo is a coordination model based on circuit-like connectors which coordinate components through the interplay of data flow, synchronisation and mutual exclusion, state, and context-dependent behaviour. This paper proposes a scheme based on connector colouring for determining the behaviour of a Reo connector by resolving its context dependent synchronisation and mutual exclusion constraints. Co...

Leveraging Aspect-Connectors to Improve Stability of Product-Line Variabilities

One of the design goals of Product Line Architectures (PLAs) is to remain stable while accommodating changes of stakeholder’s requirements. However, the stability of a PLA is largely dependent on how modularized are the decisions crosscutting multiple architectural variation points. Their scattered implementation often leads to a number of side effects, such as architecture-wide modifications. ...