Larch: languages and tools for formal specification
Larch: languages and tools for formal specification
Constraint diagrams: visualizing invariants in object-oriented models
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Modular semantics for object-oriented models
3FACS'98 Proceedings of the 3rd BCS-FACS conference on Northern Formal Methods
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A diagrammatic approach to the semantics of OO modelling notations is proposed. This is based on an innovative and expressive notation dubbed "constraint diagrams", which can be used to precisely characterise a range of sophisticated, static constraints on OO models. Other notations, such as those found in UML, can be viewed as projections of constraint diagrams. Work on using constraint diagrams at the core of a 3D modelling notation is also briefly described as a means of similarly providing the semantics of diagrams imposing constraints on dynamic behaviour.