Validation of Visual Contracts for Services

José D. de la Cruz, Lam-Son Lê, Alain Wegmann

2006

Abstract

Visual modeling languages have specialized diagrams to represent behavior and concepts. This diagram specialization has drawbacks such as the difficulty in representing the effects of services (or actions). We have developed a Visual Contract notation that describes, within one diagram, a service and its effects. This paper presents the semantics of this notation and the verification and validation capability provided by the mapping between our notation and the Alloy lightweight specification language. This validation and verification capability of the Visual Contracts contributes to business/IT alignment.

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in Harvard Style

D. de la Cruz J., Lê L. and Wegmann A. (2006). Validation of Visual Contracts for Services . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-49-8, pages 147-156. DOI: 10.5220/0002502501470156


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis06,
author={José D. de la Cruz and Lam-Son Lê and Alain Wegmann},
title={Validation of Visual Contracts for Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={147-156},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002502501470156},
isbn={978-972-8865-49-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - Validation of Visual Contracts for Services
SN - 978-972-8865-49-8
AU - D. de la Cruz J.
AU - Lê L.
AU - Wegmann A.
PY - 2006
SP - 147
EP - 156
DO - 10.5220/0002502501470156