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Conditions for Compatibility of Components

The Case of Masters and Slaves

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We consider systems composed of reactive components that collaborate through synchronised execution of common actions. These multi-component systems are formally represented as team automata, a model that allows a wide spectrum of synchronisation policies to combine components into higher-level systems. We investigate the correct-by-construction engineering of such systems of systems from the point of view of correct communications between the components (no message loss or deadlocks due to indefinite waiting). This leads to a proposal for a generic definition of compatibility of components relative to the adopted synchronisation policy. This definition appears to be particularly appropriate for so-called master-slave synchronisations by which input actions (for ‘slaves’) are driven by output actions (from ‘masters’).

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    We have drawn this arc as an explicit example of a non master-slave synchronisation in which the station executes input action \(\text {req}_i?\) and does not synchronise with the \(\text {req}_i!\) of the user.

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We thank the reviewers for their suggestions and additional references to related work. M.H. ter Beek was supported by the CNR through a Short-Term Mobility grant and J. Carmona was supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the European Union (FEDER funds) under grant COMMAS (ref. TIN2013-46181-C2-1-R).

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ter Beek, M.H., Carmona, J., Kleijn, J. (2016). Conditions for Compatibility of Components. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Foundational Techniques. ISoLA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47166-2_55

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