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UML has been the de facto specification language for software design, using the object-oriented approach in particular. However, components in UML are mostly presented as graphical diagrams that are informal and often lead to different interpretations. Although formal methods exist for UML specification, most of which are semi-formal or rely on another high-level language to describe the UML components. In this paper, we give a formal specification for the core UML, the class and state diagrams using the basic predicate logic and set notations. The goal is to provide a precise definition for object-oriented software.
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Hu, G. (2008). A Formal Specification of UML Class and State Diagrams. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70560-4_21
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