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MSC Connectors - The Philosopher’s Stone

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Telecommunications and beyond: The BroaderApplicability of SDL and MSC (SAM 2002)

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Component oriented modelling by means of Message Sequence Charts requires new language constructs for an adequate description of the component communication. The communication between parts of a system, i.e., its components, follows interaction patterns which are expressed in the component oriented world as software connectors. The employment of MSCs for the description of both, connectors and components, has turned out to be a very promising concept. In analogy to decomposed instances, MSC connectors may be viewed also as High Level messages for the refinement of the communication behaviour, a construct which is still missing in the MSC language. The communication of MSC components via MSC connectors is suitably defined by means of the matching of component and connector interface descriptions, thereby, employing a partitioning of the component environment description. The matching procedure between MSC components and MSC connectors can be described by means of a partial order semantics.

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  1. Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Software and Engineering, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-81739, München, Germany

    Peter Graubmann

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, D-80290, München, Germany

    Ekkart Rudolph

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DB, Wales, UK

    Edel Sherratt

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Graubmann, P., Rudolph, E. (2003). MSC Connectors - The Philosopher’s Stone. In: Sherratt, E. (eds) Telecommunications and beyond: The BroaderApplicability of SDL and MSC. SAM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36573-7_13

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