کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
378955 659242 2011 25 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Generating operation specifications from UML class diagrams: A model transformation approach
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
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Generating operation specifications from UML class diagrams: A model transformation approach
چکیده انگلیسی

One of the more tedious and complex tasks during the specification of conceptual schemas (CSs) is modeling the operations that define the system behavior. This paper aims to simplify this task by providing a method that automatically generates a set of basic operations that complement the static aspects of the CS and suffice to perform all typical life-cycle create/update/delete changes on the population of the elements of the CS. Our method guarantees that the generated operations are executable, i.e. their executions produce a consistent state wrt the most typical structural constraints that can be defined in CSs (e.g. multiplicity constraints). In particular, our method takes as input a CS expressed as a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram (optionally defined using a profile to enrich the specification of associations) and generates an extended version of the CS that includes all necessary operations to start operating the system. If desired, these basic operations can be later used as building blocks for creating more complex ones. We show the formalization and implementation of our method by means of model-to-model transformations. Our approach is particularly relevant in the context of Model Driven Development approaches.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Data & Knowledge Engineering - Volume 70, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 365–389
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