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Logic has proved essential for formally modeling software based systems. Such formal descriptions, frequently called specifications, have served not only as requirements documentation and formalisation, but also for providing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Carlos G. Lopez Pombo , Thomas S. E. Maibaum

Conceptual models as representations of real-world systems are based on diverse techniques in various disciplines but lack a framework that provides multidisciplinary ontological understanding of real-world phenomena. Concurrently, systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

We set down the principles behind a modeling language for quantum software. We present a minimal set of extensions to the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML) that allows it to effectively model quantum software. These extensions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Hector G. Perez-Gonzalez

An important factor in guaranteeing the quality of a system is developing a conceptual model that reflects the knowledge about its domain as well as knowledge about the functions it has to perform. In software engineering, conceptual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

The KF metamodel is a comprehensive unifying metamodel covering the static structural entities and constraints of UML Class Diagrams (v2.4.1), ER, EER, ORM, and ORM2, and intended to boost interoperability of common conceptual data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Pablo R. Fillottrani , C. Maria Keet

In this paper we present a possible way how a precise semantics of object oriented modeling techniques can be achieved and what the possible benefits are .We outline the main modeling techniques used in the SysLab project sketch how a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Ruth Breu , Radu Grosu , Franz Huber , Bernhard Rumpe , Wolfgang Schwerin

The ongoing digital transformation in industry applies to all product life cycle's stages. The design decisions and dimensioning carried out in the early conceptual design stages determine a huge part of the product's life cycle costs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Samuel Vogel , Peter Arnold

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) community has started to define so-called profiles in order to better suit the needs of specific domains or settings. Product lines1 represent a special breed of systems they are extensible semi-finished…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Wolfgang Pree , Marcus Fontoura , Bernhard Rumpe

Design of large software systems requires rigorous application of software engineering methods covering all phases of the software process. Debugging during the early design phases is extremely important, because late bug-fixes are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Johann Schumann

Methods: This work introduces a method supporting the collaborative definition of machine learning tasks by leveraging model-based engineering in the formalization of the systems modeling language SysML. The method supports the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Simon Raedler , Juergen Mangler , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

The focus of these lecture notes is on abstract models and basic ideas and results that relate to the operational semantics of programming languages largely conceived. The approach is to start with an abstract description of the computation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Roberto M. Amadio

Autoformalization, the process of transforming informal mathematical propositions into verifiable formal representations, is a foundational task in automated theorem proving, offering a new perspective on the use of mathematics in both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ke Weng , Lun Du , Sirui Li , Wangyue Lu , Haozhe Sun , Hengyu Liu , Tiancheng Zhang

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is commonly used in introductory Computer Science to teach basic object-oriented design. However, there appears to be a lack of suitable software to support this task. Many of the available programs that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Scott Turner , Manuel A. Perez-Quinones , Stephen H. Edwards

Model-driven engineering is the automatic production of software artefacts from abstract models of structure and functionality. By targeting a specific class of system, it is possible to automate aspects of the development process, using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Chen-Wei Wang , Jim Davies

The field of spoken language processing is undergoing a shift from training custom-built, task-specific models toward using and optimizing spoken language models (SLMs) which act as universal speech processing systems. This trend is similar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Siddhant Arora , Kai-Wei Chang , Chung-Ming Chien , Yifan Peng , Haibin Wu , Yossi Adi , Emmanuel Dupoux , Hung-Yi Lee , Karen Livescu , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper we show by using the example of UML, how a software engineering method can benefit from an integrative mathematical foundation. The mathematical foundation is given by a mathematical system model. This model provides the basis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Ruth Breu , Radu Grosu , Franz Huber , Bernhard Rumpe , Wolfgang Schwerin

An unified language for the communicative acts between agents is essential for the design of multi-agents architectures. Whatever the type of interaction (linguistic, multimodal, including particular aspects such as force feedback),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Frédéric Landragin , Alexandre Denis , Annalisa Ricci , Laurent Romary

In model-driven engineering (MDE), UML class diagrams serve as a way to plan and communicate between developers. However, it is complex and resource-consuming. We propose an automated approach for the extraction of UML class diagrams from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Song Yang , Houari Sahraoui

Application of formal models provides many benefits for the software and system development, however, the learning curve of formal languages could be a critical factor for an industrial project. Thus, a natural language specification that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Phan Vo Thu Nhat , Maria Spichkova

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) optimize production and business processes at the same time. However, the engineering and specification of MES is a challenging, interdisciplinary process. Especially IT and production experts with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Maria Witsch , Birgit Vogel-Heuser