Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Object-Oriented Transformation

   • Kenneth Baclawski, Scott A. DeLoach, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Jeffrey Smith

   Pages 1-14

3. Being served: The Purposes, Strengths and Limitations of Formal Service Modelling

   • Bernard Cohen

   Pages 15-25

4. What vs. How of Visual Modeling: The Arrow Logic of Graphic Notations

   • Zinovy Diskin, Boris Kadish, Frank Piessens

   Pages 27-44

5. Meta-Modelling Semantics of UML

   • Andy Evans, Robert France, Kevin Lano, Bernhard Rumpe

   Pages 45-60

6. Combining JSD and Cleanroom for Object-Oriented Scenario Specification

   • Marc Frappier, Richard St-Denis

   Pages 61-74

7. What is Behind UML-RT?

   • Radu Grosu, Manfred Broy, Bran Selic, Gheorghe Stefănescu

   Pages 75-90

8. Applying ISO RM-ODP in the Specification of CORBA® Interfaces and Semantics to General Ledger Systems

   • Jack Hassall, John Eaton

   Pages 91-103

9. Component-Based Algebraic Specification

   • Shusaku Iida, Kokichi Futatsugi, Răzvan Diaconescu

   Pages 105-121

10. A Meta-Model Semantics for Structural Constraints In UML

    • Stuart Kent, Stephen Gaito, Niall Ross

    Pages 123-139

11. On the Structure of Convincing Specifications

    • Haim Kilov, Allan Ash

    Pages 141-160

12. Formalising the UML in Structured Temporal Theories

    • Kevin Lano, Juan Bicarregui

    Pages 161-174

13. JML: A Notation for Detailed Design

    • Gary T. Leavens, Albert L. Baker, Clyde Ruby

    Pages 175-188

14. Agents: Between Order and Chaos

    • James J. Odell

    Pages 189-193

15. UML, The Future Standard Software Architecture Description Language?

    • Andy Schürr, Andreas J. Winter

    Pages 195-207

16. Using Information Modeling to Define Business Requirements

    • Mark A. Shafer

    Pages 209-217

17. A Layered Context Perspective on the Design of Enterprises and Information Systems

    • Ian Simmonds, David Ing

    Pages 219-236

18. 30 Things that Go Wrong in Object Modelling with UML 1.3

    • Anthony J. H. Simons, Ian Graham

    Pages 237-257

19. Formalizing Association Semantics In Terminologies

    • Harold Solbrig

    Pages 259-270

20. On the Specification of the Business and Economic Foundations of Electronic Commerce

    • Angelo E. Thalassinidis, Ira Sack

    Pages 271-286

Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems deals with the reading, writing and understanding of specifications. The papers presented in this book describe useful and sometimes elegant concepts, good practices (in programming and in specifications), and solid underlying theory that is of interest and importance to those who deal with increased complexity of business and systems. Most concepts have been successfully used in actual industrial projects, while others are from the forefront of research. Authors include practitioners, business thinkers, academics and applied mathematicians. These seemingly different papers address different aspects of a single problem - taming complexity.
Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems emphasizes simplicity and elegance in specifications without concentrating on particular methodologies, languages or tools. It shows how to handle complexity, and, specifically, how to succeed in understanding and specifying businesses and systems based upon precise and abstract concepts. It promotes reuse of such concepts, and of constructs based on them, without taking reuse for granted.
Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems is the second volume of papers based on a series of workshops held alongside ACM's annual conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) and European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP). The first volume, Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications, edited by Haim Kilov and William Harvey, was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1996.

• CORBA
• Unified Modeling
• complexity
• design
• information
• information system
• language
• modeling
• object oriented design
• object-oriented programming (OOP)
• programming
• semantics
• service-level agreement
• service-oriented computing
• software architecture

• Genesis Development Corporation, USA

  Haim Kilov

• Technische Universität München, Germany

  Bernhard Rumpe

• IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

  Ian Simmonds

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