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In this paper, addressing the classical problem of modelling the behaviour of a system, we present a paradigmatic journey from purely formal and textual techniques to derived visual notations, with a further attention first to code generation and finally to the incorporation into a standard notation such as the UML.
We show how starting from Casl positive conditional specifications with initial semantics of labelled transition systems, we can devise a new visual paradigm, the interaction charts, which are diagrams able to express both reactive and proactive/autonomous behaviour.
Then, we introduce the executable interaction charts, which are interaction charts with a special semantics, by which we try to ease the passage to code generation.
Finally, we present the interaction machines, which are essentially executable interaction charts in a notation that can be easily incorporated, as an extension, into the UML.
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Astesiano, E., Reggio, G. (2005). From Conditional Specifications to Interaction Charts. In: Kreowski, HJ., Montanari, U., Orejas, F., Rozenberg, G., Taentzer, G. (eds) Formal Methods in Software and Systems Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3393. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31847-7_10
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