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Technical Report 2003-010

A Formal Semantics for UML Statecharts

Alexandre David, Johann Deneux, and Julien d'Orso

February 2003

Abstract:
The UML language is a large set of notations and rules to describe different aspects of a system. It provides a set of diagrams to view the system from different angles: use case diagrams, class diagrams, statecharts diagrams, and deployment diagrams are some of them. In this report we are interested in the statecharts diagrams that describe dynamic behaviours. We give a formal semantics for a large subset of these statecharts, in particular we focus on the action language semantics. Our subset and semantics are very close to the one supported by the tool Rhapsody.

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