Bringing class diagrams to life

Research in formal methods emphasizes a funda- mental interconnection between modeling, calculation and prototyping, made possible by a common unambiguous, mathematical semantics. This paper, building on a broader research agenda on coalgebraic semantics for Unified Modeling Language diagrams, conce...

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Autor principal: Barbosa, L. S. (author)
Outros Autores: Sun, Meng (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2010
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20283
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/20283
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Resumo:Research in formal methods emphasizes a funda- mental interconnection between modeling, calculation and prototyping, made possible by a common unambiguous, mathematical semantics. This paper, building on a broader research agenda on coalgebraic semantics for Unified Modeling Language diagrams, concentrates on class diagrams and discusses how such a coalgebraic perspective can be of use not only for formalizing their specification, but also as a basis for prototyping.