The application of MDA to Web services has recently received considerable attention. Similar to UML diagrams, Web services are specialised languages each one targeting a specific a...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
— UML 1 sequence diagrams have been widely employed for modeling software requirements and design. UML 2 introduced many new features, such as Combined Fragments, to make sequenc...
The demand for data integration is rapidly becoming larger as more and more information sources appear in modern enterprises. In many situations a logical (rather than physical) i...
Aspect-oriented modeling is proposed to design the architecture of fault tolerant systems. Notations are introduced that support the separate and modularized design of functional ...