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This article presents a UML profile for an OCL extension that enables modelers to specify behavioral, state-oriented real-time constraints in OCL. In order to perform a seamless integration into the upcoming UML2.0 standard, we take the latest OCL2.0 metamodel proposal byWarmer et al. [22] as a basis. A formal semantics of our temporal OCL extension is given by a mapping to time-annotated temporal logics formulae.
To give an example of the applicability of our extension, we consider a modeling approach for manufacturing systems called MFERT. We present a corresponding UML profile for that approach and combine both profiles for formal verification by real-time model checking.
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Flake, S., Mueller, W. (2002). A UML Profile for Real-Time Constraints with the OCL. In: Jézéquel, JM., Hussmann, H., Cook, S. (eds) ≪UML≫ 2002 — The Unified Modeling Language. UML 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45800-X_16
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