Universal Modeling Language (UML) is a way of visualizing a software program using a collection of diagrams. That is perhaps the simplest way to define it. If you’re looking for a full-winded ...

The UML provides an excellent startingpoint for defining and designing computer systems, but forreal-time development, the UML needs to go further.

UML is a language, not a process UML simply provides a notational and semantic framework to capture,explore, and document aspects of OO software development. Tomaximize the benefit of using UML, you ...

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...

The UML modeler is built on top of the Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit, so you'll need to download and install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling ...

In-Depth From UML to Design by Contract By Christine Mingins, Yu Liu April 1, 2001 A trustworthy, reusable component will clearly advertise the set of services it provides in its interface. More ...

We then use model mappings, coupled with marks that indicate which mapping rule to apply, to translate the application model into hardware and software description languages. This approach enables a ...

If modeling projects aren't available, check that you have the Ultimate version. Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To ...