Contributions for modelling UML state-charts in B

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

Volumn 2335, Issue , 2002, Pages 109-127

  Ledang, Hung ^a   Souquières, Jeanine ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Activity; B operation; Babstract machine; Bmethod; Class operation; Event; State chart; UML

Indexed keywords

FORMAL SPECIFICATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

B-METHOD; CLASS OPERATION; EVENT; STATE CHARTS; UML;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84944223004     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47884-1_7     Document Type: Article

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