Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T14:53:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao Carlos Cesar.pdf: 5267302 bytes, checksum: 26bac06a2f7777c938fb717c801f59cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this thesis, an approach based on Set Theory and on the Z Formal Language Specification is presented to formalize the transformations between models in the context of Model Driven Engineering (MDE). The motivation for this research is justified due the ambiguities and inconsistencies present in the models of transformation used to abstract the model transformation process in the MDE context. The precision absence in these the models lead the user to misinterpret complex structures present in the mapping of the source model elements to the target model elements. In this context, we proposed to develop a formal methodology that eliminates the ambiguities and inconsistencies present in the informal representations of model transformation in MDE. To solve this problem, a Formal and Conceptual Framework is developed that groups the elements involved in the process of transformation, represented by mathematical artifacts from the Set Theory and specified on Z language. This Framework is validated through a case study that contains complex transformations, tested on the mathematical proof tool Z/EVES, which supports statements made in Z language. / Nesta dissertação, apresenta-se uma abordagem baseada na Teoria dos Conjuntos e na Linguagem de Especificação Formal Z para formalizar a Transformação entre Modelos dentro do contexto da Engenharia Dirigida a Modelos (MDE). A motivação desta pesquisa se deu devido a constatação de que a literatura sobre MDE tem apresentado ambiguidades e inconsistências nos modelos utilizados para abstrair o processo de transformação de modelos no contexto da MDE. Esta falta de precisão nestes tipos de modelos leva o usuário a interpretar de forma errada estruturas complexas presentes no mapeamento de elementos do modelo fonte para o modelo alvo. Sendo assim, propõe-se desenvolver uma metodologia formal que elimine as ambiguidades e inconsistências presentes nas representações informais da transformação de modelos da MDE. Para solucionar este problema, desenvolveu-se um Framework Conceitual Formal que agrupa os elementos envolvidos no processo de transformação, onde estes são representados através de artefatos matemáticos da Teoria dos Conjuntos e especificados em linguagem Z. Este Framework é validado através de um estudo de caso que contêm transformações, testadas na ferramenta de prova matemática Z/EVES, que suporta declarações feitas em linguagem Z.

The growing need for computer software in different sectors of activity, (health, agriculture, industries, education, aeronautic, science and telecommunication) together with the increasing reliance of the society as a whole on information technology, is placing a heavy and fast growing demand on complex and high quality software systems. In this regard, the anticipation has been on non-functional requirements (NFRs) engineering and formal methods. Despite their common objective, these techniques have in most cases evolved separately. NFRs engineering proceeds firstly, by deriving measures to evaluate the quality of the constructed software (product-oriented approach), and secondarily by improving the engineering process (process-oriented approach). With the ability to combine the analysis of both functional and non-functional requirements, Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) approaches have become de facto leading requirements engineering methods. They propose through refinement/operationalisation, means to satisfy NFRs encoded in softgoals at an early phase of software development. On the other side, formal methods have kept, so far, their promise to eliminate errors in software artefacts to produce high quality software products and are therefore particularly solicited for safety and mission critical systems for which a single error may cause great loss including human life. This thesis introduces the concept of Complementary Non-functional action (CNF-action) to extend the analysis and development of NFRs beyond the traditional goals/softgoals analysis, based on refinement/operationalisation, and to propagate the influence of NFRs to other software construction phases. Mechanisms are also developed to integrate the formal technique Z/Object-Z into the standardised User Requirements Notation (URN) to formalise GRL models describing functional and non-functional requirements, to propagate CNF-actions of the formalised NFRs to UCMs maps, to facilitate URN construction process and the quality of URN models. / School of Computing / D. Phil (Computer Science)