The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation
«UML» '98 Selected papers from the First International Workshop on The Unified Modeling Language «UML»'98: Beyond the Notation
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
UMLtoCSP: a tool for the formal verification of UML/OCL models using constraint programming
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
USE: A UML-based specification environment for validating UML and OCL
Science of Computer Programming
System Model-Based Definition of Modeling Language Semantics
FMOODS '09/FORTE '09 Proceedings of the Joint 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FMOODS '09 and 29th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FORTE '09 on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems
From UML to Alloy and back again
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation
HOL-OCL: a formal proof environment for UML/OCL
FASE'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Theory and practice of software, 11th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering
MontiCore: a framework for compositional development of domain specific languages
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
Verifying UML/OCL models using Boolean satisfiability
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
CDDiff: semantic differencing for class diagrams
Proceedings of the 25th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Semantically configurable consistency analysis for class and object diagrams
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
UML2Alloy: a challenging model transformation
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Semantically configurable consistency analysis for class and object diagrams
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
SMT-based enumeration of object graphs from UML class diagrams
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Specifying UML protocol state machines in alloy
IFM'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Integrated Formal Methods
From UML and OCL to relational logic and back
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Finite satisfiability of UML class diagrams with constrained class hierarchy
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - In memoriam, fault detection and localization, formal methods, modeling and design
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We present CD2Alloy, a novel, powerful translation of UML class diagrams (CDs) to Alloy. Unlike existing translations, which are based on a shallow embedding strategy, and are thus limited to checking consistency and generating conforming object models of a single CD, and support a limited set of CD language features, CD2Alloy uses a deeper embedding strategy. Rather than mapping each CD construct to a semantically equivalent Alloy construct, CD2Alloy defines (some) CD constructs as new concepts within Alloy. This enables solving several analysis problems that involve more than one CD and could not be solved by earlier works, and supporting an extended list of CD language features. The ideas are implemented in a prototype Eclipse plug-in. The work advances the state-of-the-art in CD analysis, and can also be viewed as an interesting case study for the different possible translations of one modeling language to another, their strengths and weaknesses.