UML2Alloy: A challenging model transformation

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

Volumn 4735 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 436-450

  Anastasakis, Kyriakos ^a   Bordbar, Behzad ^a   Georg, Geri ^b   Ray, Indrakshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b University Services Building   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ALLOY ANALYZER; ALLOY CODE; AUTOMATED TRANSFORMATION;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 38049005345     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75209-7_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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