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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/jucs.97170</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>H.1 - MODELS AND PRINCIPLES</subject>
          <subject>H.4.m - Miscellaneous</subject>
          <subject>I.6.4 - Model Validation and Analysis</subject>
          <subject>I.6.5 - Model Development</subject>
          <subject>I.6.m - Miscellaneous</subject>
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        <article-title>Combining SysML and Timed Coloured Petri Nets for Designing Smart City Applications</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Souza</surname>
            <given-names>Layse Santos</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">laysesantossouza@gmail.com</email>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Soares</surname>
            <given-names>Michel S.</given-names>
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        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil</addr-line>
        <institution>Federal University of Sergipe</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">São Cristóvão</addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
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        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Layse Santos Souza (<email xlink:type="simple">laysesantossouza@gmail.com</email>).</p>
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          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>1217</fpage>
      <lpage>1250</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>04</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2023</year>
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        <copyright-statement>Layse Santos Souza, Michel S. Soares</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>A smart city is an urban centre that integrates a variety of solutions to improve infrastructure performance and achieve sustainable urban development. Urban roads are a crucial infrastructure highly demanded by citizens and organisations interested in their deployment, performance, and safety. Urban traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem that aims to monitor and improve traffic congestion. The deployment of traffic signals for vehicles or pedestrians at an intersection is a complex activity that changes constantly, so it is necessary to establish rules to control the flow of vehicles and pedestrians. Thus, this article describes the joint use of the SmartCitySysML, a profile proposed by the authors, with TCPN (Timed Coloured Petri Nets) to refine and formally model SysML diagrams specifying the internal behaviour, and then verify the developed model to prove behavioural properties of an urban traffic signal control system.</p>
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            <named-content content-type="funder_name">Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa e à Inovação Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe</named-content>
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