In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini
Knowing which associations are compositions is important in a tool for the reverse engineering of UML class diagrams. Firstly, recovery of composition relationships bridges the ga...
Abstract. Aspect Oriented Modeling (AOM) techniques facilitate separate modeling of concerns and allow for a more flexible composition of these than traditional modeling technique...
Selim Ciraci, Wilke Havinga, Mehmet Aksit, Christo...
The UML's Object Constraint Language provides the modeller of object-oriented systems with ways to express the semantics of a model in a precise and declarative manner. The co...
We define the dynamic semantics of UML State Machines which integrate statecharts with the UML object model. The use of ASMs allows us (a) to rigorously model the event driven run...