Chemical methods of synthesis of materials play a crucial role in the design and discovery of
new materials, and also provide better and less cumbersome methods for preparing known …

Object-Process Methodology (OPM) is a comprehensive novel approach to systems
engineering. Integrating function, structure and behavior in a single, unifying model, OPM …

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for systems
development and has been promoted as a technology that will help solve some of the …

Despite its recognition as a standard object-oriented modeling language, Unified Modeling
Language (UML) has been criticized for such deficiencies as semantic inconsistencies …

Abstract Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPNs) and their supporting computer tools have
been used in a wide range of application areas such as communication protocols, software …

Abstract UML 2.0, which is the standard modeling language for object-oriented systems, has
only an informally given semantics. This is in particular the case for UML 2.0 state machines …

In this paper, we discuss the results of our survey among 84 practitioners in order to
understand practitioners' perspectives towards requirements engineering. We asked 28 …

UML formal semantics: lessons learned Page 1 Softw Syst Model (2011) 10:441–446 DOI
10.1007/s10270-011-0207-y EXPERT’S VOICE UML formal semantics: lessons learned …

In order to cope with the rising complexity of today's systems, model-based development of
software-intensive embedded systems has become a de-facto standard in recent years …

Software models are the core development artifact in model-based engineering (MBE). The
MBE paradigm promotes the use of software models to describe structure and behavior of …