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Picturing Program Design

whitepaper Today, in the world of object-oriented and distributed computing, Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams serve these purposes. Over time, various graphically oriented techniques, such as producing the data definition diagrams used by structured...

Tags: database applications, language, oriented, figures

[13 Oct 2006]

What's new in UML 2.0?

whitepaper While several important new modeling capabilities were added -- such as the ability to more accurately capture software architectures -- the dominant characteristic of this revision is the heightened precision of the language definition that...

Tags: levels, automation, productivity, modeling

[08 Nov 2005]

An ASM Semantics of UML Derived From the Meta-Model and Incorporating Actions

whitepaper While UML is rapidly becoming the industry standard for modeling, its standard definition does not contain a precise semantics. The semantics of UML is defined by a textual description coming with some meta-modeling description (an of abstract...

Tags: uml, description, uml, modeling

[22 Feb 2005]

New Type Checking Rules for OCL Expressions

whitepaper The Object Constraint Language OCL is an integral part of UML, the Unified Modeling Language standard. It has been added to Rational's UML core as a logic-based sublanguage for the definition of integrity constraints (invariants) on class diagrams...

Tags: object-oriented, definition, language, type

[21 Feb 2005]

MAC and UML for Secure Software Design

whitepaper One of the dominant players in software design is the unified modeling language, UML, a language for specifying, visualizing, constructing and documenting software artifacts. This paper examines the incorporation of MAC into the unified modeling...

Tags: uml, lifecycle, modeling, unified

[13 Feb 2005]

From UML to BPEL

whitepaper It builds upon the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD). This paper describes a new tool from part of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit version 1.1 (ETTK) released on alphaWorks, which takes processes defined in...

Tags: object-oriented, language, implement, definition

[10 Feb 2005]

Extending UML to Enable the Definition and Design Real-Time Embedded Systems

whitepaper This paper discusses the suitability of UML, the popular OO modeling language, for defining and designing real-time and embedded systems. The complexity and size of the average real-time system is increasing rapidly.

Tags: object-oriented, system software, object orientation, designs

[09 Feb 2005]

Formal Semantics for a UML Fragment Using UML/OCL Metamodeling

whitepaper This paper studies the definition of formal semantics for a fragment of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) that covers some static and dynamic UML concepts. The idea of the considered methodological approach is based on the formalization of an...

Tags: uml, semantics, unified modeling language, fragment

[29 Jul 2004]

Towards Dynamic Meta Modeling of UML Extensions: An Extensible Semantics for UML Sequence Diagrams

whitepaper The Unified Modeling Language has become the OMG standard in (object-oriented) software modeling. This hinders its use in practice since much time is wasted on clarifying a common understanding of the modeling artifacts.

Tags: uml, language, modeling, semantics

[16 Jul 2004]

The Object Primer 2nd Edition: the Application Developer's Guide to Object-Orientation

whitepaper You discover this right from the very beginning with its advice for effective requirements engineering, showing how to apply the industry-standard technique of UML use case modeling in conjunction with additional techniques such as essential user...

Tags: distributed objects, book, techniques, modeling

[24 Feb 2004]

Multiple Perspective Dynamic Decision Making

whitepaper Language), a general language for modeling and solving dynamic decision problems. Based on a unifying task definition and a common vocabulary for the relevant decision problems, this new paradigm balances the trade-off between model transparency...

Tags: decision support / dw front end, language, modeling, paradigm

[24 Feb 2004]

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