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UML
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation
The Uni ed Modeling Language UML is rapidly emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling OO systems. Given this role, it is imperative that the UML needs a well-de ned, fully expl...
Andy Evans, Robert B. France, Kevin Lano, Bernhard...
WIFT
1998
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
What Does Industry Need From Formal Specification Techniques?
In this paper I examine what industry really needs from formal specification techniques. I first describe the background to our use of formal techniques. I then look at the role o...
Anthony Hall
KBS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Facilitating formal specification acquisition by using recursive functions on context-free languages
Although formal specification techniques are very useful in software development, the acquisition of formal specification is a difficult task. This paper presents the formal softw...
Haiming Chen, Yunmei Dong
ICSE
1997
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Introducing Formal Specification Methods in Industrial Practice
Formal specification methods are not often applied in industrial projects, despite their advantages and the maturity of theories and tools. The scarce familiarity of practitioners...
Luciano Baresi, Alessandro Orso, Mauro Pezzè...
FMCAD
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Monitor-Based Formal Specification of PCI
Bus protocols are hard to specify correctly, and yet it is often critical and highly beneficial that their specifications are correct, complete, and unambiguous. The informal speci...
Kanna Shimizu, David L. Dill, Alan J. Hu