Abstract: The abstract syntax and static semantics of UML, the widely-used generalpurpose graphical modeling language, have been standardized in a four-layer metamodeling framework...
Abstract—Functional flow block diagrams (FFBDs) are a traditional tool of systems engineering and remain popular in some systems engineering domains. However, their lack of form...
Allan I. McInnes, Brandon K. Eames, Russell J. Gro...
Formal concept analysis (FCA) has been applied successively in diverse fields such as data mining, conceptual modeling, social networks, software engineering, and the semantic we...
This paper presents a framework to reason about the eects of assignments in recursive data structures. We dene an operational semantics for a core language based on Meyer's id...
I discuss formal description techniques (FDTs) as they are applied in practice in software and system engineering. Their quality can be measured by their formality, descriptivenes...