Industrial practice in software engineering has developed in recent years from rigid heavyweight document-based development techniques, such as the Rational Unified Process, to in...
James Noble, Stuart Marshall, Stephen Marshall, Ro...
Abstract. We present a practical approach to a formal analysis of UMLbased models. This is achieved by an underlying formal representation in Z, which allows us to pose and dischar...
Due to rapidly increasing system complexity, shortening time-tomarket, and growing demand for hard real-time systems, formal methods are becoming indispensable in the synthesis of...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
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...