Verifying UML diagrams with model checking: A rewriting logic based approach

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 356-362

  Mokhati, Farid ^a   Gagnon, Patrice ^b   Badri, Mourad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OUM EL BOUAGHI   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; GRAPHIC METHODS; LINGUISTICS; MODEL CHECKING; SPECIFICATIONS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CASE STUDIES; CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAUDE SPECIFICATIONS; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS; QUALITY SOFTWARE; REWRITING LOGIC (RWL); STATIC AND DYNAMIC; U ML DIAGRAMS; UML NOTATION; USE MODELS; VERIFICATION PROCESSES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 46449137570     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2007.4385520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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