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Linking CSP-OZ with UML and Java: A Case Study

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Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2004)

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We describe how CSP-OZ, an integrated formal method combining the process algebra CSP with the specification language Object-Z, can be linked to standard software engineering languages, viz. UML and Java. Our aim is to generate a significant part of the CSP-OZ specification from an initially developed UML model using a UML profile for CSP-OZ, and afterwards transform the formal specification into assertions written in the Java Modelling Language JML complemented by CSP jassda . The intermediate CSP-OZ specification serves to verify correctness of the UML model, and the assertions control at runtime the adherence of a Java implementation to these formal requirements. We explain this approach using the case study of a “holonic manufacturing system” in which coordination of transportation and processing is distributed among stores, machine tools and agents without central control.

This research was partially supported by the DFG project ForMooS (grant Ol/98-3).

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    Michael Möller, Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, Holger Rasch & Heike Wehrheim

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Möller, M., Olderog, ER., Rasch, H., Wehrheim, H. (2004). Linking CSP-OZ with UML and Java: A Case Study. In: Boiten, E.A., Derrick, J., Smith, G. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24756-2_15

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