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Contributions for Modelling UML State-Charts in B

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Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2002)

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An appropriate approach for translating UML to B formal specifications allows one to use UML and B jointly in an unified, practical and rigorous software development. We can formally analyse UML specifications via their derived B formal specifications. This point is significant because B support tools like AtelierB are available. We can also use UML specifications as a tool for building B specifications, so the development of B specifications become easier.

In this paper, we address the problem of modelling UML state-charts in B, which has not been, so far, completely treated. We distinguish between event-related and activity-related parts of UML state-charts. We propose deriving the B specification of the event-related part independently with the activity-related part. For this purpose, a new approach for modelling events is proposed; the communication among state-charts is also considered.

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  1. LORIA, Université Nancy 2 - UMR 7503, Campus scientifique, BP 239, 54506, Vand÷uvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France

    Hung Ledang & Jeanine Souquières

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science Declarative Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Michael Butler

  2. Turku Centre for Computer Science, Lemminkäisenkatu 14A, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Luigia Petre

  3. Department of Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Lemminkäisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Kaisa Sere

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Ledang, H., Souquières, J. (2002). Contributions for Modelling UML State-Charts in B. In: Butler, M., Petre, L., Sere, K. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47884-1_7

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