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Translating UML-RSDS OCL to ANSI C

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Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF 2017)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 10748))

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In this paper we describe a transformation from a subset of OCL to ANSI C code, and we show that the generated code provides improved efficiency compared to OCL execution using Java, C# or C++. The transformation is itself formally specified using OCL.

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Notes

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    The operation versions should have the same signatures, overloading is not supported for this translation.

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    www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32.

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  1. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, London, UK

    Kevin Lano, Sobhan Yassipour-Tehrani & Hessa Alfraihi

  2. Department of Software Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

    Shekoufeh Kolahdouz-Rahimi

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  1. Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

    Martina Seidl

  2. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

    Steffen Zschaler

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Lano, K., Yassipour-Tehrani, S., Alfraihi, H., Kolahdouz-Rahimi, S. (2018). Translating UML-RSDS OCL to ANSI C. In: Seidl, M., Zschaler, S. (eds) Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations. STAF 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74730-9_28

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