The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
This paper provides an overview on the approach of the IST OMEGA project for the development of correct software for embedded systems based on the use of UML as modelling language....
In this paper we describe techniques for the specification and verification of model transformations using a combination of UML and formal methods. The use of UML 2 notations to s...
Existing ADLs (Architecture Description Languages) have an advantage of formally specifying the architecture of component-based systems. But ADLs have not come into extensive use ...
In this paper, dynamic meta modeling is proposed as a new approach to the operational semantics of behavioral UML diagrams. The dynamic meta model extends the well-known static met...
Gregor Engels, Jan Hendrik Hausmann, Reiko Heckel,...