Prevostini et al. have proposed in [9] the ACES design flow that is a complete design flow that starts from the UML level. ACES design flow grabs the system specifications through the class, state ...

The Unified Modeling Language, widely used by software designers but little-known among their hardware counterparts, could be on its way to becoming a lingua franca for system-level modeling. But even ...

Even though I have Team Suite MSDN subscription, since we run VS2008 apparently we can't use the "reverse engineer solution to Visio UML class diagrams" functionality that VS2005 had. Thanks ...

Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kind of patterns, which we refer to as ...

For now, I’ll focus on one aspect of UML: the elements of a class diagram. Arguably, class diagrams are the most often used UML diagrams. The purpose of a class diagram is to specify the ...

The CPN-UML today demanded the formation of a high-level all-party governmental committee to probe into Sunday’s triple bomb blasts that killed two persons. The party has also formed a team to ...

Class diagram of a video rental application. UML and OCL The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a formal language that expresses side effect-free constraints 3,6,7 in UML models. A side effect-free ...