TY - JOUR AU - Brucker, Achim D. AU - Wolff, Burkhart PY - 2009 DA - 2009/07/ TI - Semantics, Calculi, and Analysis for Object-oriented Specifications JO - Acta Informatica SP - 255 EP - 284 VL - 46 IS - 4 PB - Springer-Verlag CY - Heidelberg KW - UML, OCL, object-oriented specification, refinement, formal methods AB - We present a formal semantics for an object-oriented specification language. The formal semantics is presented as a conservative shallow embedding in Isabelle/HOL and the language is oriented towards OCL formulae in the context of UML class diagrams. On this basis, we formally derive several equational and tableaux calculi, which form the basis of an integrated proof environment including automatic proof support and support for the analysis of this type of specifications. We show applications of our proof environment to data refinement based on an adapted standard refinement notion. Thus, we provide an integrated formal method for refinement-based object-oriented development. SN - 0001-5903 L1 - https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/download/2009/brucker.ea-semantics-2009.pdf UR - https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/abstract/brucker.ea-semantics-2009 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00236-009-0093-8 DO - 10.1007/s00236-009-0093-8 LA - USenglish ID - brucker.ea:semantics:2009 ER -