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  • A formal semantics for complete UML state machines with communications

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    Liu, S
    Liu, Y
    André, E
    Choppy, C
    Sun, J
    Wadhwa, B
    Dong, JS
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Dong, Jin-Song
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    UML is a widely used notation, and formalizing its semantics is an important issue. Here, we concentrate on formalizing UML state machines, used to express the dynamic behaviour of software systems. We propose a formal operational semantics covering all features of the latest version (2.4.1) of UML state machines specification. We use labelled transition systems as the semantic model, so as to use automatic verification techniques like model checking. Furthermore, our proposed semantics includes synchronous and asynchronous communications between state machines. We implement our approach in USM2C, a model checker supporting ...
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    UML is a widely used notation, and formalizing its semantics is an important issue. Here, we concentrate on formalizing UML state machines, used to express the dynamic behaviour of software systems. We propose a formal operational semantics covering all features of the latest version (2.4.1) of UML state machines specification. We use labelled transition systems as the semantic model, so as to use automatic verification techniques like model checking. Furthermore, our proposed semantics includes synchronous and asynchronous communications between state machines. We implement our approach in USM2C, a model checker supporting editing, simulation and automatic verification of UML state machines. Experiments show the effectiveness of our approach.
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    Journal Title
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume
    7940
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38613-8_23
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Springer International Publishing AG. This is an electronic version of an article published in Lecture Notes In Computer Science (LNCS), volume 7940, pp 331-346, 2013. Lecture Notes In Computer Science (LNCS) is available online at: http://link.springer.com// with the open URL of your article.
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    Software engineering not elsewhere classified
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172900
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