ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
UML class diagrams are usually annotated with OCL expressions that constrain their possible instantiation. In our work we have investigated how OCL annotations can be automatically...
UML
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2001
Springer
: This paper introduces the Calculating with Concepts (CC) technique, which has been developed to improve the precision of UML class diagrams and allows the formal reasoning based ...
GI
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2001
Springer
We present a pragmatic approach using formal methods to increase the quality of distributed component based systems: Based on UML class diagrams annotated with OCL constraints, co...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
CAISE
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
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...
SOFTVIS
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
UML diagrams have become increasingly important in the engineering and reengineering processes for software systems. Of particular interest are UML class diagrams whose purpose is...
SOFTVIS
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods accordin...
COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Software architecture and design are usually modeled and represented by informal diagrams, such as architecture diagrams and UML diagrams. While these graphic notations are easy t...
EKAW
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
There is a growing interest in the use of UML class diagrams as a modeling language to represent domain ontologies. In a series of papers (e.g., [1,2]) we have been using the Gener...
VISSOFT
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
The paper presents and assesses a layout scheme for UML class diagrams that takes into account the architectural importance of a class in terms of its stereotype (e.g., boundary, ...