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An Overview of Mobile Object-Z

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Jin Song DongAuthors Info & Claims

ICFEM '02: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods: Formal Methods and Software Engineering

Pages 144 - 155

Published: 21 October 2002 Publication History

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Mobile Object-Z (MobiOZ) is an extended notation of Object-Z with mobile and communication primitives required for mobile agent applications. In this paper, we will give an overview of the MobiOZ language features and present its semantic foundation. We also demonstrate expressiveness of the notation through a number of examples.

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Higashino MOsaki SOtagaki STakahashi KKawamura TSugahara KWeippl EIndrawan-Santiago MSteinbauer MKotsis GKhalil I(2013)Debugging Mobile Agent SystemsProceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2539150.2539261(667-670)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2539150.2539261
Bezerra JHirata C(2009)A polyadic pi-calculus approach for the formal specification of UML-RTAdvances in Software Engineering10.1155/2009/6568102009(1-16)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2009/656810
Smith G(2004)A formal framework for modelling and analysing mobile systemsProceedings of the 27th Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 2610.5555/979922.979946(193-202)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/979922.979946

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Higashino MOsaki SOtagaki STakahashi KKawamura TSugahara KWeippl EIndrawan-Santiago MSteinbauer MKotsis GKhalil I(2013)Debugging Mobile Agent SystemsProceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2539150.2539261(667-670)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2539150.2539261
Bezerra JHirata C(2009)A polyadic pi-calculus approach for the formal specification of UML-RTAdvances in Software Engineering10.1155/2009/6568102009(1-16)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2009/656810
Smith G(2004)A formal framework for modelling and analysing mobile systemsProceedings of the 27th Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 2610.5555/979922.979946(193-202)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/979922.979946

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