This paper explores the process of validation for the syntax of a graphical notation. We define a unified specification for five of the UML diagrams used by the Discovery Method a...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style to reuse and integrate subsystems in existing systems for designing new applications. Each application is designed in...
Through the incorporation of derived classes and associations in class diagrams, this paper proposes a method to improve the specification power of multiplicity for n-ary associat...
System and software development has become an increasingly complex science. With so many emerging devices, processors, systems specification languages, software implementation lan...
We present an approach towards a formal dynamic semantics for UML using ASM. We aim to remain as close as possible to the standard definition of UML and to cover the operational pa...