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DIAGRAMS
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
What Can Spider Diagrams Say?
Spider diagrams are a visual notation for expressing logical statements. In this paper we identify a well known fragment of first order predicate logic, that we call ESD, equivalen...
Gem Stapleton, John Howse, John Taylor, Simon J. T...
DIAGRAMS
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Fixing Shin's Reading Algorithm for Peirce's Existential Graphs
In her book "The Iconic Logic of Peirce's Graphs", S. J. Shin elaborates the diagrammatic logic of Peirce's Existential Graphs. Particularly, she provides trans...
Frithjof Dau
TASE
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Semantics of Metamodels in UML
A modelling language can be defined by a metamodel in UML class diagram. This paper defines the semantics of such metamodels through two mappings: a signature mapping from metamod...
Lijun Shan, Hong Zhu
TOOLS
1999
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Constraint Diagrams: A Step Beyond UML
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a set of notations for modelling object-oriented systems. It has become the de facto standard. Most of its notations are diagrammatic. An ex...
Joseph Gil, John Howse, Stuart Kent
DIAGRAMS
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Fragments of Spider Diagrams of Order and Their Relative Expressiveness
Abstract. Investigating the expressiveness of a diagrammatic logic provides insight into how its syntactic elements interact at the semantic level. Moreover, it allows for comparis...
Aidan Delaney, Gem Stapleton, John Taylor, Simon J...