2014/11/17 by Alexander Knapp, Till Mossakowski, Knapp, Alexander +5
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #cs.LO #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.4495
24 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1403.7747
arxiv created 2014/11/17 · arxiv updated 2014/11/18
We present an institution for UML state machines without hierarchical states. The interaction with UML class diagrams is handled via institutions for guards and actions, which provide dynamic components of states (such as valuations of attributes) but abstract away from details of class diagrams. We also study a notion of interleaving product, which captures the interaction of several state machines. The interleaving product construction is the basis for a semantics of composite structure diagrams, which can be used to specify the interaction of state machines. This work is part of a larger effort to build a framework for formal software development with UML, based on a heterogeneous approach using institutions.