From live sequence charts to state machines and back: A guided tour

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 999-1014

  Bontemps, Yves ^b   Heymans, Patrick ^c   Schobbens, Pierre Yves ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b Smals Belgium   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Life cycle; Program verification; Requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

INTRAAGENT PERSPECTIVES; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; STATE MACHINES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FLOWCHARTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33947165803     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.137     Document Type: Article

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