Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
act notation, so separating the abstract syntax and semantics of the language constructs from their different concrete notations. Although the foundation constituents of the MDE a...
Through the incorporation of derived classes and associations in class diagrams, this paper proposes a method to improve the specification power of multiplicity for n-ary associat...
This paper presents a logic, called BOTL (Object-Based Temporal Logic), that facilitates the specification of dynamic and static properties of object-based systems. The logic is ba...
—In this paper, we present a UML metamodel-based approach for creating and executing workflow models. The modeling language is introduced through its abstract syntax, and an eval...