Dynamic meta modeling: A graphical approach to the operational semantics of behavioral diagrams in UML

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1939, Issue , 2000, Pages 323-337

  Engels, Gregor ^a   Hausmann, Jan Hendrik ^a   Heckel, Reiko ^a   Sauer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graph transformation; Precise behavioral semantics; Statechart diagrams; UML meta model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; MACHINERY; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; SEMANTICS;

BEHAVIORAL SEMANTICS; COLLABORATION DIAGRAM; CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; GRAPH TRANSFORMATION; META MODEL; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; STATE CHART DIAGRAMS; STRUCTURED OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 33746469481     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-40011-7_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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