• DocumentCode
    3227980
  • Title

    Using Alloy to model-check visual design notations

  • Author

    Simons, Anthony J H ; Fernández, Carlos Alberto Fernández y

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sheffield Univ., UK
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    26-30 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    121
  • Lastpage
    128
  • Abstract
    This paper explores the process of validation for the abstract syntax of a graphical notation. We define a unified specification for five of the UML diagrams used by the discovery method and, in this document, we illustrate how diagrams can be represented in Alloy and checked against our specification in order to know if these are valid under the discovery notation.
  • Keywords
    Unified Modeling Language; formal specification; program verification; Alloy model checker; UML diagram; Unified Modeling Language; abstract syntax; discovery method; formal specification; graphical notation; visual design notation; visual model-checking; Computer science; Context modeling; Encoding; Formal specifications; Information analysis; Object oriented modeling; Proposals; Unified modeling language;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science, 2005. ENC 2005. Sixth Mexican International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1550-4069
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2454-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ENC.2005.52
  • Filename
    1592209