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On Types, Instances, and Classes in UML

Alain Wegmann

The semantics of UML [3] is for a large part given in English. The drawback of Eng-lish is its ambiguity, which makes it unclear and ambiguous. But the benefits of Eng-lish are its power and flexibility, which allow it to deal with a slightly inconsistent ...

2000

Integrating the Unified Modeling Language with an Architecture Description Language

Cécile Peraire

These paper presents an approach for integrating UML with an ADL. The integration would encompass the advantages of both languages. It would give formal semantics to UML constructs and thus would provide UML with a theoretical foundation for architecture m ...

1999

The Semantics of COALA in CO-OPN/2

This report presents the formal semantics of COALA, a design language based on the concept of Coordinated Atomic Actions (CA actions). COALA has been developped with the intent of providing a concrete language to express CA actions and thus facilitate the ...

1999

UML-based Fusion Analysis

Shane Sendall

In recent times, there has been an increased requirements for software to be distributed. The well-known Fusion development method, however, can only be used to develpp sequential reactive systems, and certain restricted kinds of concurrent systems. In con ...

1999

Generic Broadcast

André Schiper, Fernando Pedone

Message ordering is a fundamental abstraction in distributed systems. However, usual ordering guarantees are purely syntactic'', that is, message semantics'' is not taken into consideration, despite the fact that in several cases semantic information a ...

1999

Hierarchical Algebraic Nets

This paper presents a specifications formalism, Hierarchical Algebraic Nets (HAN), which allows the specification and design of heterogeneous concurrent distributed systems using hierarchical descriptions based on algebraic specifications and Petri nets. A ...

1997

Semantics of OCL Specified with QVT

Slavisa Markovic

The Object Constraint Language (OCL) has been for many years formalized both in its syntax and semantics in the language standard. While the official definition of OCL’s syntax is already widely accepted and strictly supported by most OCL tools, there is n ...