Abstract. Guidelines and consistency rules of UML are used to control the degrees of freedom provided by the language to prevent faults. Guidelines are used in specific domains (e...
Abstract Web services choreography describes global models of service interactions among a set of participants. For an interaction to be executed, the participants taken part in it...
Liveness temporal properties state that something “good” eventually happens, e.g., every request is eventually granted. In Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), there is no a priori bo...
—When model-checking reports that a property holds on a model, vacuity detection increases user confidence in this result by checking that the property is satisfied in the inte...
There have been significant advances on formal methods to verify complex systems recently. Nevertheless, these methods have not yet been accepted as a realistic alternative to the ...