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      Checking the Consistency of UML Class Diagrams Using Larch Prover

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      Rigorous Object-Oriented Methods 2000 (ROOM)
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            The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been designed to be a full standard notation for Object-Oriented Modelling. UML is a rather complete set of notations, but it lacks of formal semantics. This article introduces formal semantics for UML based on algebraic abstract data types. We currently consider only class and object diagrams. These diagrams include class structures, associations, multiplicities, constraints, instances as well as specialization relationships. We give a formal semantics for each of these elements by interpreting the structure of a class as an abstract data type, associations as values of type Association, and specialization as structural projection. We show that a tool like Larch Prover is able to support proofs over UML diagrams. We use the critical pair computation to find out inconsistencies. Several different inconsistencies of class diagrams are shown on a library example.

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            January 2000
            January 2000
            : 1-16
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            [0001]IRIN - Université de Nantes

            Nantes, France
            [0002]Ecole des Mines de Nantes

            Nantes, France
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            10.14236/ewic/ROOM2000.1
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            © Pascal André et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Rigorous Object-Oriented Methods 2000

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            Rigorous Object-Oriented Methods 2000
            ROOM
            York, UK
            17 January 2000
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Rigorous Object-Oriented Methods
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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