The UML lacks precise and formal foundations for several constructs such as transition guards or method bodies, for which it resorts to semantic loopholes in the form of “uninter...
: This paper formalizes UML class diagrams and structural patterns as mathematical objects and provides a precise notion of conformance of a structural model specified as a class d...
Design notations play an important role in designing software. Agent UML (AUML), which extends the widelyused UML notation, has proposed a number of notations for modelling agent ...
Much of the research work on design patterns has primarily focused on discovering and documenting patterns. Design patterns promise early reuse benefits at the design stage. To rea...
Achieving a quality software system requires UML designers a good understanding of both design patterns and antipatterns. Unfortunately, UML models for real systems tend to be huge...