Semantics, calculi, and analysis for object-oriented specifications

Acta Informatica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-284

  Brucker, Achim D ^a   Wolff, Burkhart ^b  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROOFS; DATA REFINEMENTS; FORMAL SEMANTICS; INTEGRATED FORMAL METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED SPECIFICATIONS; SHALLOW EMBEDDING; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; PATHOLOGY; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650688992     PISSN: 00015903     EISSN: 14320525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00236-009-0093-8     Document Type: Article

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