%0 Journal Article %J Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science %D 2003 %T State-based Components Made Generic %A Luis Soares Barbosa %A José Nuno Oliveira %I Elsevier %P 39-56 %V 82 %X <p>Genericity is a topic which is not sufficiently developed in state-based systems modelling, mainly due to a myriad of approaches and behaviour models which lack unification. This paper adopts coalgebra theory to propose a generic notion of a state-based software component, and an associated calculus, by quantifying over behavioural models specified as strong monads. This leads to the pointfree, calculational reasoning style which is typical of the so-called Bird-Meertens school.</p> %> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/lsb/files/1-s2.0-s1571066104806315-main.pdf