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Software and System Modeling Based on a Unified Formal Semantics

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Requirements Targeting Software and Systems Engineering (RTSE 1997)

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Modeling and documentation are two essential ingredients for the engineering discipline of software development. During the last twenty years a wide variety of description and modeling techniques as well as document formats has been proposed. However, often these are not integrated into a coherent methodology with well-defined dependencies between the models and documentations. This hampers focused software development as well as the provision of powerful tool-support. In this paper we present the main issues and outline solutions in the direction of a unified, formal basis for software and system modeling.

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Broy, M., Huber, F., Paech, B., Rumpe, B., Spies, K. (1998). Software and System Modeling Based on a Unified Formal Semantics. In: Broy, M., Rumpe, B. (eds) Requirements Targeting Software and Systems Engineering. RTSE 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1526. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10692867_2

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