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Idioms of Logical Modelling

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Graph Transformations (ICGT 2006)

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Most modeling languages embody a particular idiom: the state/invariant/operations idiom for VDM and Z; the variable-update/temporal-logic idiom for SMV and Murphi; the imperative-programming idiom for Promela and Zing; and so on. Fixing an idiom makes tools easier to build, and helps novice modellers. But it also makes the language less flexible.

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  1. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel Jackson

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  1. Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, University of Southern Denmark, 6000, Kolding, Denmark

    Andrea Corradini

  2. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Hartmut Ehrig

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa,  

    Ugo Montanari

  4. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Leila Ribeiro

  5. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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Jackson, D. (2006). Idioms of Logical Modelling. In: Corradini, A., Ehrig, H., Montanari, U., Ribeiro, L., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Transformations. ICGT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841883_2

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