Formal Modeling and Analysis of Object Oriented Systems using Triple Graph Grammars

Abstract

This paper proposes a Model Driven Engineering automatic translation approach based on the integration of rewriting logic formal specification and UML semi-formal models. This integration is a contribution in formalizing UML models since it lacks for formal semantics. It aims at providing UML with the capabilities of rewriting logic and its Maude language to control and detect incoherencies in their diagrams. Rewriting logic Maude language allows simulation and verification of system's properties using its LTL model-checker. This automatic translation approach is based on meta-modeling and graph transformation since UML diagrams are graphs. More precisely, the authors have proposed five meta-models and three triple graph grammars to perform the translation process. The authors have used Eclipse Generative Modeling tools: Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) for meta-modeling, Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) for generating visual modeling tools and TGG Interpreter for proposing triple graph grammars. The approach is illustrated through an example.