Authors: Antoni Olivé, Ruth Raventós
Tags: 2005, conceptual modeling
Most current conceptual modeling languages and methods do not model events as entities. We arguethat, at least in object-oriented (O-O) languages, modeling events as entities provides substantial benefits.We show that a method for behavioral modeling that deals with event and entity types in a uniform waymay yield better behavioral schemas. The proposed method makes extensive use of language constructssuch as constraints, derived types, derivation rules, type specializations and operations, which are presentin all complete O-O conceptual modeling languages. The method can be adapted to most O-O languages. Inthis paper we explain its adaptation to the UML.Read the full paper here: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0169023X0500087X?token=09BF28CE79768EA7461809C4B07F1AFB4BAD6AE838029377F0C9F5CD8B50E9317EEA58C67141F6AC85BB76B5F4D4BEFC
