Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Software Specifications

✍ Scribed by Martin Große-Rhode

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Series: Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a model-based development of software systems different views on a system are elaborated using appropriate modeling languages and techniques. Because of the unavoidable heterogeneity of the viewpoint models, a semantic integration is required, to establish the correspondences of the models and allow checking of their relative consistency.

The integration approach introduced in this book is based on a common semantic domain of abstract systems, their composition and development. Its applicability is shown through semantic interpretations and compositional comparisons of different specification approaches. These range from formal specification techniques like process calculi, Petri nets and rule-based formalisms to semiformal software modeling languages like those in the UML family.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-29
Transformation Systems....Pages 29-62
Specification of Properties....Pages 63-101
Development of Transformation Systems....Pages 103-159
Composition of Transformation Systems....Pages 161-227
Applications to UML Software Specifications....Pages 229-275
Conclusion....Pages 277-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-330

✦ Subjects

Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters