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JSS
2006
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A formal representation of functional size measurement methods
Estimating software size is a difficult task that requires a methodological approach. Many different methods that exist today use distinct abstractions to depict a software system...
Marjan Hericko, Ivan Rozman, Ales Zivkovic
UML
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Ontology-Based Approach for Evaluating the Domain Appropriateness and Comprehensibility Appropriateness of Modeling Languages
In this paper we present a framework for the evaluation and (re)design of modeling languages. We focus here on the evaluation of the suitability of a language to model a set or rea...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luís Ferreira Pires, M...
JSS
2000
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An experimental comparison of reading techniques for defect detection in UML design documents
The basic motivation for software inspections is to detect and remove defects before they propagate to subsequent development phases where their detection and removal becomes more...
Oliver Laitenberger, Colin Atkinson, Maud Schlich,...
SFM
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
On the Semantic Foundations of Standard UML 2.0
This paper provides an overview of the foundations of the run-time semantics underlying the Unified Modeling Language as defined in revision 2.0 of the official OMG standard. One o...
Bran Selic
CAISE
2001
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Using UML Action Semantics for Executable Modeling and Beyond
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...
Gerson Sunyé, François Pennaneac'h, ...