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ASWEC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 hour ago
Supplementing Process-Oriented with Structure-Oriented Design Explanation within Formal Object Oriented Method
This paper reports the results from an action research project which studies the benefits of documenting the evolution and the rationale for the evolution of a requirements specif...
LeMai Nguyen, Paul A. Swatman, Graeme G. Shanks
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman
AMAST
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Formally Verified Calculus for Full Java Card
We present a calculus for the verification of sequential Java programs. It supports all Java language constructs and has additional support for Java Card. The calculus is formally ...
Kurt Stenzel
IWPC
1996
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to Software Understanding
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Formal Approaches to Software Architecture
Over the past 15 years there has been increasing recognition that careful attention to the design of a system’s software architecture is critical to satisfying its requirements ...
David Garlan