The Four-valued Logic in UML/OCL Models: A New "Playground" for the MVL Community
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Unified Modeling Language (UML) together
with the Object Constraint Language (OCL) are the description
means for modeling and specifying, e. g., software systems in
early stages of the design. They allow to define components, their
relations, and constraints of a system while, at the same time, hide
precise implementation details. Despite providing a ?blueprint?
for the desired systems, UML/OCL descriptions also allow for
an early validation and verification of the design. However, an
often overseen feature of UML/OCL is that it explicitly allows
for the consideration of irregular variables assignments such as
null and invalid?yielding a four-valued logic in the current
UML/OCL version. In this tutorial, we provide an overview
on this feature and the resulting four-valued UML/OCL logic.
More precisely, we are providing a review of the corresponding
description means as well as existing methods that allow for
a validation and verification of the corresponding models. By
this, we are aiming to introduce those UML/OCL descriptions
and methods to the MVL community in order to trigger new
directions for research and application.
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