A logical approach for behavioural composition of scenario-based models

Juliana Küster Filipe Bowles*, Behzad Bordbar, Mohammed Alwanain

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As modern systems become more complex, design approaches model different aspects of the system separately. When considering (intra and inter) system interactions, it is usual to model individual scenarios using UML’s sequence diagrams. Given a set of scenarios we then need to check whether these are consistent and can be combined for a better understanding of the overall behaviour. This paper addresses this by presenting a novel formal technique for composing behavioural models at the metamodel level through exact metamodel restriction (EMR). In our approach a sequence diagram can be completely described by a set of logical constraints at the metamodel level. When composing sequence diagrams we take the union of the sets of logical constraints for each diagram and additional behavioural constraints that describe the matching composition glue. A formal semantics for composition in accordance with the glue guides our model transformation to Alloy. Alloy’s fully automated constraint solver gives us the solution. Our technique has been implemented as an Eclipse plugin SD2Alloy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFormal Methods and Software Engineering 17th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2015, Paris, France, November 3-5, 2015, Proceedings
EditorsMichael Editor, Sylvain Conchon, Fatiha Zaidi
PublisherSpringer
Pages252-269
Number of pages18
Volume9407
ISBN (Electronic)9783319254234
ISBN (Print) 9783319254227
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event17th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2015, - Paris, France
Duration: 3 Nov 20155 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9407
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2015,
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period3/11/155/11/15

Keywords

  • Alloy
  • Behavioural composition
  • Event structures
  • Sequence diagrams

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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