%0 Conference Paper
%B 4th International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems - FMOODS
%D 2000
%T Components as Processes: An Exercise in Coalgebraic Modeling
%A Luis Soares Barbosa
%E S. Smith
%E C. Talcott
%C Stanford, USA
%I Kluwer Academic Publishers
%P 397–417
%X <p>Abstract Software components, arising, typically, in systems ’ analysis and design, are characterized by a public interface and a private encapsulated state. They persist (and evolve) in time, according to some behavioural patterns. This paper is an exercise in modeling such components as coalgebras for some kinds of endofunctors on ¢¡¤ £ , capturing both (interface) types and behavioural aspects. The construction of component categories, cofibred over the interface space, emerges by generalizing the usual notion of a coalgebra morphism. A collection of composition operators as well as a generic notion of bisimilarity, are discussed.</p>
%8 September
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