A formal semantics for complete uml state machines with communications

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

Volumn 7940 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 331-346

  Liu, Shuang ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   André, Étienne ^c   Choppy, Christine ^c   Sun, Jun ^d   Wadhwa, Bimlesh ^a   Dong, Jin Song ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^d SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; FORMAL SEMANTICS; LABELLED TRANSITION SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; UML STATE MACHINE;

MODEL CHECKING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84886030854     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38613-8_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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