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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

Automatic derivation of BPEL4WS from IDEF0 process models

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Integration definition for function modelling (IDEF0) is one of the most popular notations for modelling business processes. It employs...

A systematic approach to generate B preconditions: application to the database domain

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Maintaining integrity constraints in information systems is a real issue. In our previous work, we have defined a formal...

Towards a model-driven engineering approach for the assessment of non-functional properties using multi-formalism

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Model-driven techniques can be used to automatically produce formal models from different views of a system realised by using...

RoboChart: modelling and verification of the functional behaviour of robotic applications

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Robots are becoming ubiquitous: from vacuum cleaners to driverless cars, there is a wide variety of applications, many with...

ESUML-EAF: a framework to develop an energy-efficient design model for embedded software

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There is a growing interest in developing embedded systems that consume low energy in such application areas as mobile...

A relational approach to defining and implementing transformations between metamodels

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The Model-Driven Architecture initiative of the OMG promotes the idea of transformations in the context of mapping from platform...

A profile and tool for modelling safety information with design information in SysML

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Communication both between development teams and between individual developers is a common source of safety-related faults in safety-critical system...

Does aspect-oriented modeling help improve the readability of UML state machines?

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Aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) is a relatively recent and very active field of research, whose application has, however, been limited...

Promoting traits into model-driven development

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Traits, as sets of behaviors, can provide a good mechanism for reusability. However, they are limited in important ways...

Temporal property patterns for model-based testing from UML/OCL

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This article describes a new property- and model-based testing approach using UML/OCL models, driven by temporal property patterns and...