Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Software Specifications

by Martin Große-Rhode

Overview

The first book to integrate various model-based software specification approaches. The integration approach is based on a common semantic domain of abstract systems, their composition and development. Its applicability is shown through semantic interpretations and compositional comparisons of different specification approaches. These range from formal specification techniques like process calculi, Petri nets and rule-based formalisms to semiformal software modeling languages like those in the UML family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540402572
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/12/2004
Series:	Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

1988 Dipl. Math., TU Berlin

1994 Dr. rer.nat. (PhD) Computer Science, TU Berlin

1997/98 senior researcher in the European network GETGRATS, Università di Roma « La Sapienza », Rome, Italy and Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

1999 guest professor, Universitat de les Illes Balears (University of the Balearic Islands), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2002 Habilitation, TU Berlin

since June 2002 senior researcher, Fraunhofer Institut Software- und Systemtechnik, Berlin

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Transformation Systems.- 3 Specification of Properties.- 4 Development of Transformation Systems.- 5 Composition of Transformation Systems.- 6 Applications to UML Software Specifications.- 7 Conclusion.- A Partial Algebras and Their Specification.- References.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book targets an urgent need, to evolve methods that allow developers to integrate software specifications that are related … . The book is well organized and neatly written … . Examples, when provided are appropriate. … The book will surely be a good reference book for researchers and practitioners of model-driven software development … . The effort by the author to illustrate and extend the approach to UML is clearly a step in the right direction … ." (Srini Ramaswamy, Computing Reviews, February, 2005)

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