Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
Latest research results have shown that requirements errors have a prolonged impact on software development and that they are more expensive to fix during later stages than early ...
Wuwei Shen, Mohsen Guizani, Zijiang Yang, Kevin J....
Model Driven Engineering proposes the use of models at different levels of ion. Step by step validation of model refinements is necessary to guarantee the correctness of the final ...
The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it eas...
Willem Visser, Klaus Havelund, Guillaume P. Brat, ...
Goal-oriented methods are increasingly popular for elaborating software requirements. They offer systematic support for incrementally building intentional, structural, and operati...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...