Paper Info
Title
Extending a Graphic Modeling Language to Support Partial and Evolutionary Specification
Abstract
The notion of partial and evolutionary specification has gained attention both in research and industry in the last years. While many people regard this just as a process issue, we are convinced that it is as well a language problem. Unfortunately, UML is not expressive enough to deal with evolutionary information in the system. In this paper, we propose an extension to a graphic modeling language called ADORA which is developed in our research group. We conservatively extend the semantics of some ADORA constructs so that intentional incompleteness can be expressed in the language and define a calculus for refining such specifications. With the help of these extensions, evolutionary specifications can be written in a controlled and systematic way. As the language and its extensions are formally defined, the consistency of evolutionary refinements can be checked mechanically by a tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/APSEC.2004.51
APSEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
evolutionary specification,last year,graphic modeling language,process issue,language problem,intentional incompleteness,support partial,evolutionary refinement,evolutionary information,research group,formal specification,graphical model,refinement calculus,unified modeling language
Specification language,Programming language specification,Programming language,Computer science,Modeling language,Formal specification,Object language,Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification,Systems Modeling Language,Object Constraint Language
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2245-9
2
0.42
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Xia120.42
Martin Glinz2878110.82