Specification and refinement of mobile systems in MTLA and mobile UML

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 351, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 184-202

  Knapp, Alexander ^a   Merz, Stephan ^b   Wirsing, Martin ^a   Zappe, Júlia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Mobile systems; Refinement; Spatial logic; Specification; System development; Temporal logic; UML; Verification

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORMAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

MOBILE SYSTEMS; REFINEMENT; SPATIAL LOGIC; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOGIC; UML; VERIFICATION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 31444457138     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2005.09.067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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