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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

UML – the Good, the Bad or the Ugly? Perspectives from a panel of...

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Profiling the publish/subscribe paradigm for automated analysis using colored Petri nets

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UML sequence diagrams are used to graphically describe the message interactions between the objects participating in a certain scenario....

A UML-Based Approach to System Testing

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System testing is concerned with testing an entire system based on its specifications. In the context of object-oriented, UML...

Systematic stereotype usage

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As one of the UML's main extension mechanisms, stereotypes play a crucial role in the UML's ability to serve...

Implementing associations: UML 2.0 to Java 5

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A significant current software engineering problem is the conceptual mismatch between the abstract concept of an association as found...

A method for describing the syntax and semantics of UML statecharts

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In this article we present a method for describing the language of UML statecharts. Statecharts are syntactically defined as...

A method of refinement in UML-B

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UML-B is a 'UML-like' graphical front-end for Event-B that provides support for object-oriented and state machine modelling concepts, which...

A pattern-based approach for improving model quality

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UML class diagrams play a central role in modeling activities, and it is essential that class diagrams keep their...

Metamodel specialization for graphical language support

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Most of current modeling languages are based on graphical diagrams. The concrete graphical syntax of these languages typically is...

A powertype-based metamodelling framework

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Software development methodologies may be described in the context of an underpinning metamodel, but the precise mechanisms that permit...