Abstract. A popular approach to compositional verification of component-based applications is based on the assume-guarantee paradigm, where an assumption models behavior of an env...
UML is widely used today for modelling complex systems. However, the tools support capabilities for UML is limited, partially due to its lack of precise semantics. There are some ...
Abstract. Abstraction is essential in the formal specification of programs. A common way of writing abstract specifications is to specify implementations in terms of basic mathem...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a formalism which uses the stochastic process algebra PEPA as the inscription language for labelled stochastic Petri nets. Viewed in another way...
The formal description of the semantics of object-oriented data models is still an open problem. Some characteristic features of object-oriented data models, such as methods and i...