Semantics of Stereotypes for Type Specification in UML: Theory and Practice
In the context of object-oriented formalism, stereotypes are presented as a new means for user-defined extensions of the Unified...
Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs
Conceptual models are formal descriptions of application domains that are used in early stages of system development to support...
Developing Sequence Diagrams in UML
The UML (Unified Modeling Language) has been widely accepted as a standard language for object-oriented analysis and design. Among...
Translation of a High-Level Temporal Model into Lower Level Models: Impact of Modelling at...
The paper attempts theoretically to clarify the interrelation between various levels of descriptions used in the modelling and the...
Relationship Type Refinement in Conceptual Models with Multiple Classification
The definition of a relationship type includes its participant entity types and the cardinality constraints. Relationship type refinement is...
A Metamodel for Part ñ Whole Relationships for Reasoning on Missing Parts and Reconstruction
The ontological analysis of parts and wholes gathers recently increasing interest, and develops into a specific research area called...
Developing XML Documents with Guaranteed “Good” Properties
Many XML documents are being produced, but there are no agreed-upon standards formally defining what it means for complying...
Dimension Hierarchies Design from UML Generalizations and Aggregations
Data for decision-making applications are based on dimensions, such as time, customer, and product. These dimensions are naturally related...
Minimize Mark-Up! Natural Writing Should Guide the Design of Textual Modeling Frontends
Designing and implementing modeling frontends for domains in which text is predominant (it may be informal, semi-formal or formal)...
Coping with Inconsistent Constraint Specifications
Due to the complexity ofmo dern database applications, semantic information is no longer a unified whole, but arises from...
