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IFM
2004
Springer
185views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2004»
14 years 29 days ago
Object-Oriented Modelling with High-Level Modular Petri Nets
Abstract. In this paper, we address the problem of expressing objectoriented concepts in terms of Petri nets. This is interesting, first, as a possibility of representing concurre...
Cécile Bui Thanh, Hanna Klaudel
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic Modularity and Module Extraction in Description Logics
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to study semantic notions of modularity in description logic (DL) terminologies and reasoning problems that are relevant for modularity. We defin...
Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther, Frank Wol...
VL
2010
IEEE
173views Visual Languages» more  VL 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Modular Design by Contract Visually and Formally Using VCL
Visual representations are widely used to describe modern-day software systems, but, in most cases, they lack rigour. This paper addresses the problems of formality, rigour and co...
Nuno Amálio, Pierre Kelsen
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modular Verification of Software Components in C
We present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. Our approach is compositional, naturally enabling us to decompos...
Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Alex Groce, Somesh ...
ESOP
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Explicit Stabilisation for Modular Rely-Guarantee Reasoning
Abstract. We propose a new formalisation of stability for Rely-Guarantee, in which an assertion's stability is encoded into its syntactic form. This allows two advances in mod...
John Wickerson, Matthew J. Parkinson, Mike Dodds