: This paper presents a framework for representing formal semantics of a subset of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation in a higher-order logic, more specifically semantics...
Computer system reliability is conventionally modeled and analyzed using techniques such as fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagrams (RBD), which provide static rep...
Ryan Robidoux, Haiping Xu, Liudong Xing, MengChu Z...
Abstract. Errors in a requirements model have prolonged detrimental effects on reliability, cost, and safety of a software system. It is very costly to fix these errors in later ...
Dynamic UML models like sequence diagrams (SD) lack sufficient formal semantics, making it difficult to build automated tools for their analysis, simulation and validation. A commo...
Marouane Kessentini, Arbi Bouchoucha, Houari A. Sa...
In software construction, analysis investigates the boundary of a system (scope and requirements), its usage and access, and from a security perspective, who needs access to what ...
Thuong Doan, Steven A. Demurjian, Charles E. Phill...