MDC-Based Grey-Box Component Modeling and Prediction Analysis

How to guarantee the quality of component composition is an acute and important problem in component-based software development. This paper proposes a multi-dimension composition (MDC) model which views component composition from four aspects of time, space, data and state. This model is implemented as two data structure: ISP(Internal structural property) hierarchical tree and BP (behavioral property) directed-graph respectively. MDC model solves the limit of traditional hierarchical component model and extends the flexibility of composition granularity.