Reusing OCL in the Definition of Imperative Languages

Reusing OCL in the Definition of Imperative Languages
Author: Fabian Büttner
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3832528113

The Object Constraint Language (OCL) has proven to be a valuable ingredient for the specification of UML models. It allows to formulate logical propositions for models that typically cannot be expressed in the visual modeling paradigms of UML. A similar textual ingredient is required for the imperative specification of behavior in certain applications of UML, most prominently Executable UML models and model transformation. There is no such imperative language in the UML standard, but there are several candidates for such a language that are based on OCL for expressions. One of them is ImperativeOCL, which is part of the OMG Query, Views, Transformations (QVT) standard. However, the embedding of OCL into several of these languages is what we call a non-modular embedding. Such a non-modular embedding results in problems w. r. t. to language semantics and/or sets up obstacles for the reuse of existing OCL tools and instruments. In our work we therefore define requirements for a modular embedding of OCL into an imperative language. We introduce our language SOIL (Simple OCL-based Imperative Language) which embeds OCL in a modular way. We provide an informal description of SOIL as well as a formal definition of the language syntax and semantics, and prove its consistency and type safety. We describe applications of our approach in two fields: first, the extension of the UML-based Specification Environment (USE) by an imperative language and, second, the development of the model transformation tool XGenerator2 that has been successfully applied in several eGovernment projects. Our work makes three major contributions. First, we provide a critical review of the embedding of OCL into existing programming languages. Second, we provide a simple but already useful OCL-based imperative language with a sound and formal semantics that can be implemented out of the box using existing OCL engines. Third, our work contributes a general guideline for a safe embedding of OCL into other languages.

Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications

Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications
Author: Adenilso Simao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642250327

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2011, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2011; co-located with CBSoft 2011, the second Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers presented cover a broad range of foundational and methodological issues in formal methods for the design and analysis of software and hardware systems as well as applications in various domains.

Models in Software Engineering

Models in Software Engineering
Author: Michel R. V. Chaudron
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642016472

This book constitutes a collection of the best papers selected from the 12 workshops and 3 tutorials held in conjunction with MODELS 2008, the 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, in Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008. The contributions are organized within the volume according to the workshops at which they were presented: Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems (ACES-MB); Challenges in Model Driven Software Engineering (CHAMDE); Empirical Studies of Model Driven Engineering (ESMDA); Models@runtime; Model Co-evolution and Consistency Management (MCCM); Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE); Modeling Security (MODSEC); Model-Based Design of Trustworthy Health Information Systems (MOTHIS); Non-functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages (NFPin DSML); OCL Tools: From Implementation to Evaluation and Comparison (OCL); Quality in Modeling (QIM); and Transforming and Weaving Ontologies and Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE). Each section includes a summary of the workshop. The last three sections contain selected papers from the Doctoral Symposium, the Educational Symposium and the Research Project Symposium, respectively.

Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software

Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software
Author: Bernhard Beckert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-07-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642317626

This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software, FoVeOOS 2011, held in Turin, Italy, in October 2011 – organised by COST Action IC0701. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. Formal software verification has outgrown the area of academic case studies, and industry is showing serious interest. The logical next goal is the verification of industrial software products. Most programming languages used in industrial practice are object-oriented, e.g. Java, C++, or C#. FoVeOOS 2011 aimed to foster collaboration and interactions among researchers in this area.

Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development: Tactics and Solutions

Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development: Tactics and Solutions
Author: Ortiz, Guadalupe
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466620900

Web services provide systems with great flexibility and easier maintenance which result in better ways to communicate and distribute applications. There are good procedures in place for the design, development, and management of Web services; however, there are areas in which Web service adaptation is required. To preserve the loosely coupled approach of Web services, service adaptations should be implemented appropriately. Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development: Tactics and Solutions includes current research on the area of Web service adaptation while embarking upon the different aspects related to Web services. This collection provides an overview of existing solutions for service adaption in different development scopes as well as covers a wide variety of challenges which emerge. It aims to keep industry professionals as well as academic researchers up to date with the latest research results.

A Functional, Comprehensive and Extensible Multi-Platform Querying and Transformation Approach

A Functional, Comprehensive and Extensible Multi-Platform Querying and Transformation Approach
Author: Tassilo Horn
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2015-07-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3832542914

This thesis is about a new model querying and transformation approach called FunnyQT which is realized as a set of APIs and embedded domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the JVM-based functional Lisp-dialect Clojure. Founded on a powerful model management API, FunnyQT provides querying services such as comprehensions, quantified expressions, regular path expressions, logic-based, relational model querying, and pattern matching. On the transformation side, it supports the definition of unidirectional model-to-model transformations, of in-place transformations, it supports defining bidirectional transformations, and it supports a new kind of co-evolution transformations that allow for evolving a model together with its metamodel simultaneously. Several properties make FunnyQT unique. Foremost, it is just a Clojure library, thus, FunnyQT queries and transformations are Clojure programs. However, most higher-level services are provided as task-oriented embedded DSLs which use Clojure's powerful macro-system to support the user with tailor-made language constructs important for the task at hand. Since queries and transformations are just Clojure programs, they may use any Clojure or Java library for their own purpose, e.g., they may use some templating library for defining model-to-text transformations. Conversely, like every Clojure program, FunnyQT queries and transformations compile to normal JVM byte-code and can easily be called from other JVM languages. Furthermore, FunnyQT is platform-independent and designed with extensibility in mind. By default, it supports the Eclipse Modeling Framework and JGraLab, and support for other modeling frameworks can be added with minimal effort and without having to modify the respective framework's classes or FunnyQT itself. Lastly, because FunnyQT is embedded in a functional language, it has a functional emphasis itself. Every query and every transformation compiles to a function which can be passed around, given to higher-order functions, or be parametrized with other functions.

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007
Author: Christine Parent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540755624

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007. Coverage in the papers includes data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modeling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modeling, patterns and conceptual meta-modeling, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Author: Gregor Engels
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2007-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540752080

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly the UML series of conferences), MODELS 2007, held in Nashville, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007. The 45 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Models in Software Engineering

Models in Software Engineering
Author: Thomas Kühne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540694889

Of the workshop on multi-paradigm modeling : concepts and tools / Holger Giese, Tihamer Levendovszky and Hans Vangheluwe -- Think global, act local : implementing model management with domain-specific integration languages / Thomas Reiter, Kerstin Altmanninger and Werner Retschitzegger -- MoDELS 2006 doctoral symposium / Gabriela Arevalo and Robert Pettit -- Model driven security engineering for the realization of dynamic security requirements in collaborative systems / Muhammad Alam -- Educators' symposium at MoDELS 2006 / Ludwik Kuzniarz -- If you're not modeling, you're just programming : modeling throughout an undergraduate software engineering program / James Vallino -- Teaching software modeling in a simulated project environment / Robert Szmurlo and Michal Smialek -- Repository for model driven development (ReMoDD) / Robert France, Jim Bieman and Betty H. C. Cheng -- 2[superscript nd]UML 2 semantics symposium : formal semantics for UML / Manfred Broy, Michelle L. Crane, Juergen Dingel, Alan Hartman, Bernhard Rumpe and Bran Selic -- UML simulator based on a generic model execution engine / Andrei Kirshin, Dolev Dotan and Alan Hartman -- Queries and constraints : a comprehensive semantic model for UML2 / Ingolf H. Kruger and Massimiliano Menarini -- Analysis of UML activities with dynamic meta modeling techniques / Christian Soltenborn and Gregor Engels.