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A Practical Event-B Refinement Method Based on a UML-Driven Development Process

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Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z (ABZ 2012)

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Event-B is a formal method that allows flexible modelling and refinement of systems. However, it is hard to convince developers to adopt it because they are not used to mathematical models and it doesn’t provide any practical refinement method. On the other hand, UML has become the de facto standard for software modelling since it provides an easy graphical notation and nowadays it is supported by many practical process such as ICONIX. In this paper we propose a method for Event-B refinement based on a diffused UML-driven development process. So far, we have defined the steps of the method and the translation of most of the artifacts presented in ICONIX to Event-B.

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  1. State University of Piaui, Brazil

    Thiago C. de Sousa

  2. University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Thiago C. de Sousa & Paulo Sérgio Muniz Silva

  3. University of Southampton, UK

    Colin F. Snook

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    John Derrick

  2. Newcastle University, UK

    John Fitzgerald

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Stefania Gnesi

  4. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C5000, 78712-0240, Austin, TX, USA

    Sarfraz Khurshid

  5. Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany

    Michael Leuschel

  6. Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Steve Reeves

  7. Department of Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Elvinia Riccobene

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de Sousa, T.C., Muniz Silva, P.S., Snook, C.F. (2012). A Practical Event-B Refinement Method Based on a UML-Driven Development Process. In: Derrick, J., et al. Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30885-7_31

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