Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools
Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools

Author: Stefan Leue

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-06-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3540261893

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Visual notations and languages continue to play a pivotal role ˆ in the design of complex software systems. In many cases visual notations are used to - scribe usage or interaction scenarios of software systems or their components. While representing scenarios using a visual notation is not the only possibility, a vast majority of scenario description languages is visual. Scenarios are used in telecommunications as Message Sequence Charts, in object-oriented system design as Sequence Diagrams, in reverse engineering as execution traces, and in requirements engineering as, for example, Use Case Maps or Life Sequence Charts. These techniques are used to capture requirements, to capture use cases in system documentation, to specify test cases, or to visualize runs of existing systems. They are often employed to represent concurrent systems that int- act via message passing or method invocation. In telecommunications, for more than 15 years the International Telecommunication Union has standardized the Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) notation in its recommendation Z. 120. More recently, with the emergence of UML as a predominant software design meth- ology, there has been special interest in the development of the sequence d- gram notation. As a result, the most recent version, 2. 0, of UML encompasses the Message Sequence Chart notation, including its hierarchical modeling f- tures. Other scenario-?avored diagrams in UML 2. 0 include activity diagrams and timing diagrams.

Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools
Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools

Author: Stefan Leue

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3540320326

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Visual notations and languages continue to play a pivotal role ˆ in the design of complex software systems. In many cases visual notations are used to - scribe usage or interaction scenarios of software systems or their components. While representing scenarios using a visual notation is not the only possibility, a vast majority of scenario description languages is visual. Scenarios are used in telecommunications as Message Sequence Charts, in object-oriented system design as Sequence Diagrams, in reverse engineering as execution traces, and in requirements engineering as, for example, Use Case Maps or Life Sequence Charts. These techniques are used to capture requirements, to capture use cases in system documentation, to specify test cases, or to visualize runs of existing systems. They are often employed to represent concurrent systems that int- act via message passing or method invocation. In telecommunications, for more than 15 years the International Telecommunication Union has standardized the Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) notation in its recommendation Z. 120. More recently, with the emergence of UML as a predominant software design meth- ology, there has been special interest in the development of the sequence d- gram notation. As a result, the most recent version, 2. 0, of UML encompasses the Message Sequence Chart notation, including its hierarchical modeling f- tures. Other scenario-?avored diagrams in UML 2. 0 include activity diagrams and timing diagrams.

Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. Development, Operation and Management
Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. Development, Operation and Management

Author: Radu Calinescu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3642340598

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This book presents the thoroughly refereed and revised post-workshop proceedings of the 17th Monterey Workshop, held in Oxford, UK, in March 2012. The workshop explored the challenges associated with the Development, Operation and Management of Large-Scale complex IT Systems. The 21 revised full papers presented were significantly extended and improved by the insights gained from the productive and lively discussions at the workshop, and the feedback from the post-workshop peer reviews.

Mathematical Frameworks For Component Software: Models For Analysis And Synthesis
Mathematical Frameworks For Component Software: Models For Analysis And Synthesis

Author: Zhiming Liu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006-11-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9814477087

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The range of components technology is both wide and diverse, but some common understanding is emerging through the ideas of model-based development. These include the notions of interfaces, contracts, services, connectors and architectures. Key issues in the application of the technology are becoming clearer, including the consistent integration of different views of a component, component composition, component coordination and transformation for platforms. However, we still know little about theories that support analysis and synthesis of component-based systems. The distinct feature of this volume is its focus on mathematical models that identify the “core” concepts as first class modeling elements, and its providing of techniques for integrating and relating them. The volume contains eleven chapters by well-established researchers writing from different perspectives. Each chapter gives explicit definitions of components in terms of a set of key aspects and addresses some of the problems of integration and analysis of various views: component specification, component composition, component coordination, refinement and substitution, and techniques for solving problems. The concepts and techniques are motivated and explained with the help of examples and case studies.

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

Author: Perdita Stevens

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 3662496658

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: concurrent and distributed systems; model-driven development; analysis and bug triaging; probabilistic and stochastic systems; proof and theorem proving; and verification.

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

Author: Laurence Tratt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 3642136877

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Model transformations are the glue that tie modelling activities together. If you’ve used modelling in anger then, whether you know it or not, you’ve used model transformations. They come in all shapes and sizes from moving models between di?erent tools to generating implementations. Model transformations have humble beginnings—at one point, not long ago, it was said by many ‘in the know’ that the way forward in model transformations was to use XSLT. That this idea now raises a wry smile shows how far the model transformation community has come in a short time. Where once model transformations were hacked together in a variety of unsuitable languages, we now have a number of powerful, dedicated languages and theories at our disposal. Since 2008, the ICMT conference series has played a huge part in advancing the subject, and this third edition was no di?erent. The theories and languages presented at ICMT have allowed principled model transformations to play an ever greater part in real systems. Of course there is still much more to do: we need our model transformations, languages, and theories to scale further, allow greater expressivity, be more ?exible, and aid reusability; and we lack empirically backed studies of model transformations in use. Doubtless you can think of other gaps. Yet, though some real-world challenges lie just beyond our reach,eachyearseesonce-dauntingproblemsconquered.Muchofthatprogressis nowdriven byICMT, andthis year’sedition showedhow model transformations are increasingly being used in previously unfamiliar areas.

Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

Author: Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 3319229753

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2015, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2015. The conference was organized under the umbrella of Madrid Meet 2015, a one week event focussing on the areas of formal and quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer safety, and industrial critical applications. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 initial submissions.

Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering
Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering

Author: Gregor Engels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-08

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 3642173225

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This festschrift volume, published in honor of Manfred Nagl on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 30 refereed contributions, that cover graph transformations, software architectures and reengineering, embedded systems engineering, and more.

Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems
Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems

Author: Holger Giese

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-09

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 3642162770

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Thetopicof“Model-BasedEngineeringofReal-TimeEmbeddedSystems”brings together a challenging problem domain (real-time embedded systems) and a - lution domain (model-based engineering). It is also at the forefrontof integrated software and systems engineering, as software in this problem domain is an essential tool for system implementation and integration. Today, real-time - bedded software plays a crucial role in most advanced technical systems such as airplanes, mobile phones, and cars, and has become the main driver and - cilitator for innovation. Development, evolution, veri?cation, con?guration, and maintenance of embedded and distributed software nowadays are often serious challenges as drastic increases in complexity can be observed in practice. Model-based engineering in general, and model-based software development in particular, advocates the notion of using models throughout the development and life-cycle of an engineered system. Model-based software engineering re- forces this notion by promoting models not only as the tool of abstraction, but also as the tool for veri?cation, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The application of such model-based engineering techniques to embedded real-time systems appears to be a good candidate to tackle some of the problems arising in the problem domain.