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Matching and merging scenarios automatically with Alloy

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2015
Author
Bowles, Juliana Kuster Filipe
Alwanain, Mohammed
Bordbar, Behzad
Chen, Y.
Keywords
UML sequence diagrams
Model transformation
Composition
Alloy
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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The design of large systems often involves the creation of models that describe partial specifications. Model composition is the process of combining partial models to create a single coherent model. This paper presents an automatic composition technique for creating a sequence diagram from partial specifications captured in multiple sequence diagrams with the help of Alloy. Our contribution is twofold: a novel true-concurrent semantics for sequence diagram composition, and a model-driven transformation of sequence diagrams to Alloy that preserves the semantics of composition defined. We have created a tool SD2Alloy that implements the technique as follows: two given sequence diagrams are transformed into two Alloy models, and merged according to a set of syntactic logical constraints describing how their elements should be matched. These constraints are in accordance to our compositional semantics. The technique can also be used to detect problems and inconsistencies in the composition of diagrams.
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Bowles , J K F , Alwanain , M , Bordbar , B & Chen , Y 2015 , Matching and merging scenarios automatically with Alloy . in S Hammoudi , L Ferreira Pires , J Filipe & R C das Neves (eds) , Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development : Second International Conference, MODELSWARD 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, January 7-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers . Communications in Computer and Information Science , vol. 506 , Springer , Cham , pp. 100-116 , International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2014) , Lisbon , Portugal , 7/01/14 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_7
 
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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_7
ISSN
1865-0929
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© 2015, Publisher / the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at link.springer.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_7
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9959

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