Component model and specification for interoperability and reusability

Abstract

Interoperability is an important issue in CBD. Interoperability conflicts between components makes components cooperate and communicate with each other, which incurs additional cost to fitting the components into a system. Those costs include the cost of identifying interoperability problems, as well as fixing the problems. However, existing component specification frameworks mix control and computation in a component, which incurs additional costs. This thesis suggests a new component specification framework and its model that separates control and computation and reflects, and partitions component``s functional aspects including interface, static behavior, dynamic behavior, and interaction protocol. The main contribution is to make a component``s interoperability analysis efficient through a multi-dimensional specification partition. Additionally, the provides the efficiency of identifying interoperability problems and solving the identified problems.