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Revisiting Semantics of Interactions for Trace Validity Analysis

Software Engineering 2020-05-08 v2

Abstract

Interaction languages such as MSC are often associated with formal semantics by means of translations into distinct behavioral formalisms such as automatas or Petri nets. In contrast to translational approaches we propose an operational approach. Its principle is to identify which elementary communication actions can be immediately executed, and then to compute, for every such action, a new interaction representing the possible continuations to its execution. We also define an algorithm for checking the validity of execution traces (i.e. whether or not they belong to an interaction's semantics). Algorithms for semantic computation and trace validity are analyzed by means of experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1911.03094,
  title  = {Revisiting Semantics of Interactions for Trace Validity Analysis},
  author = {Erwan Mahe and Christophe Gaston and Pascale Le Gall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03094},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages of contents and 2 pages for references, 10 figures. Published in ETAPS-FASE2020 : "23rd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering" in the "research papers" category

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