Formalizing UML Class Diagrams in PVS
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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) [1] is a language for specifying, visualizing and documenting object-oriented systems. It serves as a standard OO modeling notation and has powerful tool supports like Rational Rose [2]. It became popular among the industrial community mainly because it provides visual, intuitively appealing graphical notations and structuring mechanisms. However, a major drawback of the UML notation is the lack of precise semantics to support rigorous formal reasoning. In this paper, we present a brief summary of a work done on formalization of UML class diagrams using Prototype Verification System (PVS) [3] as underlying semantic foundation. For full version of this paper see [4].
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