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An Institutional Approach to Communicating UML State Machines

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Abstract

We present a new approach on how to provide institution-based semantics for communicating UML state machines in form of a hybrid modal logic \(\mathcal {M}^{\downarrow }_{\mathcal {D}}\). A theoroidal comorphism maps \(\mathcal {M}^{\downarrow }_{\mathcal {D}}\) into the \(\textsc {Casl}\) institution. This allows for symbolic reasoning on communicating UML state machines.

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  3. Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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Rosenberger, T., Knapp, A., Roggenbach, M. (2022). An Institutional Approach to Communicating UML State Machines. In: Johnsen, E.B., Wimmer, M. (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99429-7_12

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