Metamodel-based model conformance and multiview consistency checking
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Formal Foundation for Pattern-Based Modelling
FASE '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
Reusing Patterns through Design Refinement
ICSR '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Reuse: Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering
Automated Formalisation for Verification of Diagrammatic Models
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Formalising design and interaction patterns and their relationships
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems
Initiating a design pattern catalog for embedded network systems
EMSOFT '10 Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Embedded software
A rigorous foundation for pattern-based design models
ZB'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in Z and B
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Three important goals in describing software design patterns are: generality, precision, and understandability. To address these goals, this paper presents an integrated approach to specifying patterns using Object-Z and UML. To achieve the generality goal, we adopt a role-based metamodeling approach to define patterns. With this approach, each pattern is defined as a pattern role model. To achieve precision, we formalize role concepts using Object-Z (a role metamodel) and use these concepts to define patterns (pattern role models). To achieve understandability, we represent the role metamodel and pattern role models visually using UML. Our pattern role models provide a precise basis for pattern-based model transformations or refactoring approaches.