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APSEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Formal Semantics of Timed Activity Diagrams and its PROMELA Translation
The lack of a precise semantics for UML activity diagrams makes the reasoning on models constructed using such diagrams infeasible. However, such diagrams are widely used in domai...
Nicolas Guelfi, Amel Mammar
ASWEC
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Formal Method for Program Slicing
Program slicing is a well-known program analysis technique that extracts the elements of a program related to a particular computation. Based on modular monadic semantics of a pro...
Yingzhou Zhang, Baowen Xu, José Emilio Labr...
QSIC
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Formal Fault Tree Analysis of State Transition Systems
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a traditional deductive safety analysis technique that is applied during the system design stage. However, traditional FTA does not consider transitio...
Jianwen Xiang, Kazuhiro Ogata
AMAST
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Behavioural Subtyping Relations for Object-Oriented Formalisms
In this paper we investigate the object-oriented notion of subtyping in the context of behavioural formalisms. Subtyping in OOformalisms is closely related to the concept of inheri...
Clemens Fischer, Heike Wehrheim
WCRE
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Formal Approach for Reverse Engineering: A Case Study
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng