Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems
Science of Computer Programming
Understanding Z: a specification language and its formal semantics
Understanding Z: a specification language and its formal semantics
Formal Methods Reality Check: Industrial Usage
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The B-book: assigning programs to meanings
The B-book: assigning programs to meanings
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
Model checking
Graphical Design of Reactive Systems
B '98 Proceedings of the Second International B Conference on Recent Advances in the Development and Use of the B Method
A Formal Software Specification Tool Using the Entity-Relationship Model
ER '94 Proceedings of the13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
The mystery of formal methods disuse
Communications of the ACM - Interactive immersion in 3D graphics
Mapping object diagrams into B specifications
Methods'96 Proceedings of the 1996 international conference on Methods Integration
Frameworks Based on Templates for Rigorous Model-driven Development
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Towards the Formal Verification of a Java Processor in Event-B
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Comprehensibility of UML-based formal model: a series of controlled experiments
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Empirical assessment of software engineering languages and technologies: held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2007
Information and Software Technology
Linking Event-B and Concurrent Object-Oriented Programs
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
On the Modeling Timing Behavior of the System with UML(VR)
ICCS '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Science, Part I
Automatic Generation of CSP || B Skeletons from xUML Models
Proceedings of the 5th international colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
Enterprise Information Systems - Contains Special Issue: Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems, edited by Juan Carlos Augusto and Marc Roper
Towards Abstraction for DynAlloy Specifications
ICFEM '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
A Formal Descriptive Semantics of UML
ICFEM '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Documenting the Progress of the System Development
Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance
SEPADS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
Weaving executability into UML class models at PIM level
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Behaviour Modelling in Model-Driven Architecture
Reasoning on UML Conceptual Schemas with Operations
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A Model Driven Approach to the Analysis of Timeliness Properties
ECMDA-FA '09 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications
Formal methods: Practice and experience
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
From UML to Alloy and back again
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation
Generating class contracts from UML protocol statemachines
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation
A Usability Profile for Graphical Formal Modelling Methods
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the Eighth SoMeT_09
Applying Model Checking to Generate Model-Based Integration Tests from Choreography Models
TESTCOM '09/FATES '09 Proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing of Software and Communication Systems and 9th International FATES Workshop
Connecting UML and VDM++ with Open Tool Support
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Language and Tool Support for Class and State Machine Refinement in UML-B
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
A metamodeling approach to transform UML 2.0 sequence diagrams to Petri nets
SE '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
UML-B and Event-B: an integration of languages and tools
SE '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
Automatic analysis of requirements consistency with the B method
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Balancing insight and effort: the industrial uptake of formal methods
Formal methods and hybrid real-time systems
Formal behavior modeling and effective automatic refinement
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Model interoperability via Model Driven Development
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Systematic translation rules from ASTD to event-B
IFM'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Integrated formal methods
AuRUS: automated reasoning on UML/OCL schemas
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Developing Camille, a text editor for Rodin
Software—Practice & Experience
Reducing multiplicities in class diagrams
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
A proposal for extending UML-B to support a conceptual model
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Combining UML, ASTD and B for the formal specification of an access control filter
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
A generic framework: from modeling to code
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Towards the formalisation of object-oriented methodologies
Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment
On fitting a formal method into practice
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
Refining nodes and edges of state machines
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
Generating Hierarchical State Based Representation From Event-B Models
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Verification and Validation of UML Conceptual Schemas with OCL Constraints
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An open extensible tool environment for event-b
ICFEM'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
OCL-Lite: Finite reasoning on UML/OCL conceptual schemas
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Specification and validation of behavioural protocols in the rCOS modeler
FSEN'09 Proceedings of the Third IPM international conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering
An executable semantics of the systemc UML profile
ABZ'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B and Z
A proposal for records in event-b
FM'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal Methods
A step towards merging xUML and CSP || B
Rigorous Methods for Software Construction and Analysis
Ten commandments ten years on: lessons for ASM, B, Z and VSR-net
Rigorous Methods for Software Construction and Analysis
Patterns for b: bridging formal and informal development
B'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in B
Experiences in using b and UML in industrial development
B'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in B
From UML to alloy and back again
MODELS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Models in Software Engineering
Generating class contracts from deterministic UML protocol statemachines
MODELS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Models in Software Engineering
Verification of UML models by translation to UML-B
FMCO'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Formal Methods for Components and Objects
EASE'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
An overview of the SystemB collaborative project
FACS-FMI'07 Proceedings of the 2007th internatioanal conference on Formal Methods in Industry
A logic-based semantics for the verification of multi-diagram UML models
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
FOSSACS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures
A graph grammar-based formal validation of object-process diagrams
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
Towards the verification of multi-diagram UML models
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
A practical event-b refinement method based on a UML-Driven development process
ABZ'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z
Specifying UML protocol state machines in alloy
IFM'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Integrated Formal Methods
Correctness of object oriented models by extended type inference
ICTAC'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
Aligning SysML with the B method to provide V&V for systems engineering
Proceedings of the Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation
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The emergence of the UML as a de facto standard for object-oriented modeling has been mirrored by the success of the B method as a practically useful formal modeling technique. The two notations have much to offer each other. The UML provides an accessible visualization of models facilitating communication of ideas but lacks formal precise semantics. B, on the other hand, has the precision to support animation and rigorous verification but requires significant effort in training to overcome the mathematical barrier that many practitioners perceive. We utilize a derivation of the B notation as an action and constraint language for the UML and define the semantics of UML entities via a translation into B. Through the UML-B profile we provide specializations of UML entities to support model refinement. The result is a formally precise variant of UML that can be used for refinement based, object-oriented behavioral modeling. The design of UML-B has been guided by industrial applications.