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Timed Communicating Object Z(TCOZ) combines Object-Z’s strengths in modelling complex data and state with TCSP’s strengths in modeling real-time concurrency. Based on our previous work on the XML environment for TCOZ, this paper firstly demonstrates the development of a type checker for detecting static semantic errors of the TCOZ specification, then illustrates a transformation tool to automatically project TCOZ models into UML statechart diagrams for visualising the dynamic system behaviour.
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Dong, J.S., Li, Y.F., Sun, J., Sun, J., Wang, H. (2002). XML-Based Static Type Checking and Dynamic Visualization for TCOZ. In: George, C., Miao, H. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36103-0_33
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