Formal approaches to systems analysis using UML: An overview
Formalmethods, where by a system is described and/or analyzed using precise mathematical techniques, is a well-established and yet, under-used...
Methodology evaluation framework for component-based system development
Components are already prominent in the implementation and deployment of advanced distributed information systems. Part and parcel of this...
Use Case Diagrams in Support of Use Case Modeling: Deriving Understanding from the Picture
Use case modeling in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a popular text-based tool for systems analysis and design. Use cases can be...
Enhancing UML Models: A Domain Analysis Approach
UML has been largely adopted as a standard modeling language. The emergence of UML from different modeling languages that refer to various...
Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns: Representation and Validation
The tremendous demand for software productivity has led to the idea of reuse of solutions that have worked successfully...
Physical Modeling of Data Warehouses Using UML Component and Deployment Diagrams: Design and Implementation...
Several approaches have been proposed to model different aspects of a Data Warehouse (DW) during recent years, such as...
Using Iconic Graphics in Entity-Relationship Diagrams: The Impact on Understanding
This study reports on an experiment examining the impact of iconic graphics on participants’ understanding of domains represented by...
Understanding the role of use cases in UML: A review and research agenda
A use case is a description ofa sequence of actions constituting a complete task or transaction in an application....
Human factors research on data modeling: A review of prior research, an extended framework...
This study reviews and synthesizes human factors research on conceptual data modeling. In addition to analyzing the variables used in earlier studies...
A Template for Defining Enterprise Modelling Constructs
The paper explains the need for a standard way of defining modelling constructs from different enterprise modelling languages and...
