Verification of ATL transformations using transformation models and model finders

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

Volumn 7635 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 198-213

  Büttner, Fabian ^a   Egea, Marina ^b   Cabot, Jordi ^a   Gogolla, Martin ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b ATOS Research and Innovation   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATL; Model transformation; OCL; Verification

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; INPUT MODELS; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; PARTIAL CORRECTNESS; SATISFIABILITY CHECKER; TRANSFORMATION MODEL;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84871647233     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34281-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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