Tool support for the rapid composition, analysis and implementation of reactive services

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2068-2080

  Kraemer, Frank Alexander ^a   Slåtten, Vidar ^a   Herrmann, Peter ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Model checking; Model driven development; Service composition; Service engineering; Temporal logic; UML

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS; AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CODE GENERATORS; COLLABORATIVE MODEL; FORMAL SEMANTICS; JAVA CODES; MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SERVICE COMPOSITION; SERVICE ENGINEERING; STATE MACHINE; SYSTEM PROPERTY; TOOL SUPPORT; UML 2.0;

FORMAL METHODS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 71749097369     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.06.057     Document Type: Article

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