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Constraints of Behavioural Inheritance

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We present an approach to component inheritance and reuse which closes the gap between architectural design and process-oriented approaches. To apply inheritance checks in design and verification of a system, one should consider an inheritance relation as a property of the system and specify it as an inheritance constraint. To specify the inheritance constraints we offer a logic of behavioural inheritance. In a UML profile with the process tree semantics we show how to use this logic for architectural design and for verification with respect to the specified inheritance constraint.

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Roubtsova, E.E., Roubtsov, S.A. (2004). Constraints of Behavioural Inheritance. In: Oquendo, F., Warboys, B.C., Morrison, R. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24769-2_9

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