We describe an automated method to generating models of an autonomic system. Specifically, we generate UML state diagrams for a set of interacting objects, including the extensio...
Heather Goldsby, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philip K. McKi...
Requirements for product families are expressed in terms of commonality and variability. This distinction allows early identification of an appropriate software architecture and ...
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Robin C. Laney, ...
Abstract. Model checking is an automated approach to the formal verification of hardware and software. To allow model checking tools to be used by the hardware or software designer...
Nina Amla, E. Allen Emerson, Robert P. Kurshan, Ke...
Abstract. Specification diagrams (SD's) are a novel form of graphical notation for specifying open distributed object systems. The design goal is to define notation for specif...
Functional requirements contain, and systems exhibit, the behavior summarized below.Despite the advances in software engineering since 1968, how to go from a set of functional req...