Platelets — Allies of Tumour Cells

Abstract

In this paper, we present a graphic description method for modeling software components with statechart diagrams. We build components by composing features, which define particular services or aspects of the component. The behavior of features is specified individually with partial (or incomplete) diagrams. Using refinement concepts for automata complete component descriptions are created by combining the partial automata of the desired features. In addition to this cross-cutting of components, we also consider feature interactions, which is a well known problem from the telecommunications area. We use adaptors as a glue for combining highly-entangled features which do interact. In this way we show that graphical software modeling with statechart diagrams can be extended to modular composition of features.