Abstract
We propose a methodology for system specification and verification based on UML diagrams and interpreted in terms of graphs and graph transformations. Once a system is modeled in this framework, a temporal graph logic can be used to express some of its relevant behavioral properties. Then, under certain constraints, such properties can be checked automatically.The approach is illustrated over a simple case study, the so-called Airport Case Study, which has been widely used along the first two years of the AGILE GC project.
Research partially supported by the EU FET – GC Project IST-2001-32747 agile and the EC RTN 2-2001-00346 SegraVis.
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Baldan, P., Corradini, A., Gadducci, F. (2005). Specifying and Verifying UML Activity Diagrams Via Graph Transformation. In: Priami, C., Quaglia, P. (eds) Global Computing. GC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31794-4_2
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