TY - GEN
T1 - Deriving functional interface specifications for composite components
AU - Velasco Elizondo, Perla
AU - Ndjatchi, Mbe Koua Christophe
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - An interface specification serves as the sole medium for component understanding and use. Current practice of deriving these specifications for composite components does not give much weight to doing it systematically and unambiguously. This paper presents our progress on developing an approach to tackle this issue. We focus on deriving functional interface specifications for composite components, constructed via composition operators. In our approach, the composites' interfaces are not generated in an ad hoc manner via delegation mechanisms, but are derived systematically, consistently and largely automatically via a set of functions on the functional interfaces of the composed components. Via an example, we illustrate the aforementioned benefits as well as the fact that our approach provides a new view into the space of interface generation.
AB - An interface specification serves as the sole medium for component understanding and use. Current practice of deriving these specifications for composite components does not give much weight to doing it systematically and unambiguously. This paper presents our progress on developing an approach to tackle this issue. We focus on deriving functional interface specifications for composite components, constructed via composition operators. In our approach, the composites' interfaces are not generated in an ad hoc manner via delegation mechanisms, but are derived systematically, consistently and largely automatically via a set of functions on the functional interfaces of the composed components. Via an example, we illustrate the aforementioned benefits as well as the fact that our approach provides a new view into the space of interface generation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960117499&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22045-6_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22045-6_1
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:79960117499
SN - 9783642220449
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 17
BT - Software Composition - 10th International Conference, SC 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Conference on Software Composition, SC 2011
Y2 - 30 June 2011 through 1 July 2011
ER -