A Compositional Approach to Active and Passive Components

Current software component models lack compositionality. Most of them also do not have both active and passive components. In this paper, we show how we can define a compositional approach to active and passive components. We define these components in such a way that their composition can be defined by explicit composition operators. Our approach not only achieves compositionality, but also enables systematic or hierarchical composition.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SEAA
• Authors: Kung-Kiu Lau, Ioannis Ntalamagkas
• Keywords: Explicit Composition Operators, Models Lack Compositionality, Passive Components, SEAA 2008, Software Engineering