Inference of message sequence charts

R Alur, K Etessami, M Yannakakis - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2000 - dl.acm.org
Software designers draw Message Sequence Charts for early modeling of the individual
behaviors they expect from the concurrent system under design. Can they be sure that …

Inferring models of concurrent systems from logs of their behavior with CSight

I Beschastnikh, Y Brun, MD Ernst… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Concurrent systems are notoriously difficult to debug and understand. A common way of
gaining insight into system behavior is to inspect execution logs and documentation …

Model checking of message sequence charts

R Alur, M Yannakakis - International Conference on Concurrency Theory, 1999 - Springer
Scenario-based specifications such as message sequence charts (MSC) offer an intuitive
and visual way of describing design requirements. Such specifications focus on message …

Realizability and verification of MSC graphs

R Alur, K Etessami, M Yannakakis - Theoretical Computer Science, 2005 - Elsevier
Scenario-based specifications such as message sequence charts (MSC) offer an intuitive
and visual way to describe design requirements. MSC-graphs allow convenient expression …

Deciding properties for message sequence charts

A Muscholl, D Peled, Z Su - … on Foundations of Software Science and …, 1998 - Springer
Message sequence charts (MSC) are commonly used in designing communication systems.
They allow describing the communication skeleton of a system and can be used for finding …

Realizability and verification of MSC graphs

R Alur, K Etessami, M Yannakakis - … , ICALP 2001 Crete, Greece, July 8–12 …, 2001 - Springer
Scenario-based specifications such as message sequence charts (MSC) offer an intuitive
and visual way of describing design requirements. MSC-graphs allow convenient …

LSCs: Breathing life into message sequence charts

W Damm, D Harel - Formal methods in system design, 2001 - Springer
While message sequence charts (MSCs) are widely used in industry to document the
interworking of processes or objects, they are expressively weak, being based on the …

Syntactic detection of process divergence and non-local choice in message sequence charts

H Ben-Abdallah, S Leue - … Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for the …, 1997 - Springer
Abstract Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are increasingly used in software engineering
methodologies and tools to capture, for instance, system requirements, test scenarios, and …

An analyzer for message sequence charts

R Alur, GJ Holzmann, D Peled - Tools and Algorithms for the Construction …, 1996 - Springer
Message sequence charts (MSCs) are used in the design phase of a distributed system to
record intended system behaviors. They serve as informal documentation of design …

A theory of regular MSC languages

JG Henriksen, M Mukund, KN Kumar, M Sohoni… - Information and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Message sequence charts (MSCs) are an attractive visual formalism widely used to capture
system requirements during the early design stages in domains such as telecommunication …