Current real-world software applications typically involve heavy use of relational and XML data and their query languages. Unfortunately object-oriented languages and database que...
The decomposition of large systems into parts is a general principle of software design. Even more, in the scope of distributed systems a partition of the whole system into distri...
The need for a design language that is rigorous but accessible and intuitive is often at odds with the formal and mathematical nature of languages used for analysis. UML and Petri ...
tween documents. They should allow for an abstract representation of data which resembles the way they are actually perceived and used in the real world, thus shortening (with resp...
The Unified Modeling Language is extensible, and so can be regarded as a family of languages. Implicitly or explicitly, any particular UML model should be accompanied by a definit...
Steve Cook, Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer, Richard Mit...