On the impact of size to the understanding of UML diagrams
Background Practical experience suggests that usage and understanding of UML diagrams is greatly affected by the quality of their...
UML specification of access control policies and their formal verification
Security requirements have become an integral part of most modern software systems. In order to produce secure systems, it...
Extending the UML use case metamodel with behavioral information to facilitate model analysis and...
Use case diagrams are primary artifacts used for modeling functional requirements. Use case diagrams are part of the Unified...
Integration of DFDs into a UML-based Model-driven Engineering Approach
The main aim of this article is to discuss how the functional and the object-oriented views can be inter-played...
A Methodological Approach for Object-Relational Database Design using UML
The most common way of designing databases is by means of a conceptual model, such as E/R, without taking...
A fine-grained analysis of the support provided by UML class diagrams and ER diagrams...
This paper presents the results of an empirical study aiming at comparing the support provided by ER and UML...
Looking back at UML
This paper sets out in detail the development of the Unified Modeling Language and its derivatives from its beginning...
DataMock: An Agile Approach for Building Data Models from User Interface Mockups
In modern software development, much time is devoted and much attention is paid to the activity of data modeling...
Dual deep modeling: multi-level modeling with dual potencies and its formalization in F-Logic
An enterprise database contains a global, integrated, and consistent representation of a company’s data. Multi-level modeling facilitates the definition...
UML formal semantics: lessons learned
The article below presents the insights gained during a number of years of research dedicated to the formalisation of...
