We show how formal specifications can be integrated into one of the current pragmatic object-oriented software development methods. Jacobson's "Object-Oriented Software ...
A challenge of componentizing legacy applications is to extract behavior specification of suggested components. It is desirable to preserve a relation between the original structur...
: This paper presents a framework for representing formal semantics of a subset of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation in a higher-order logic, more specifically semantics...
Constructing models of systems that change their structure over time has proved to be a challenging problem, with several proposed solutions. We present two of these approaches an...
Fernando J. Barros, Bernard P. Zeigler, Paul A. Fi...
Formal specification methods are not often applied in industrial projects, despite their advantages and the maturity of theories and tools. The scarce familiarity of practitioners...