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IWPC
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
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DAGSTUHL
2004
14 years 11 months ago
An Example for Metamodeling Syntax and Semantics of Two Languages, their Transformation, and a Correctness Criterion
We study a metamodel for the Entity Relationship (ER) and the Relational data model. We do this by describing the syntax of the ER data model by introducing classes for ER schemata...
Martin Gogolla
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AIED
2007
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Evaluating a Collaborative Constraint-based Tutor for UML Class Diagrams
COLLECT-UML is a collaborative constraint-based tutor for teaching object-oriented analysis and design using Unified Modelling Language. It is the first system in the family of con...
Nilufar Baghaei, Antonija Mitrovic
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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Role of Experience and Ability in Comprehension Tasks Supported by UML Stereotypes
Proponents of design notations tailored for specific application domains or reference architectures, often available in the form of UML stereotypes, motivate them by improved unde...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...
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IEEEICCI
2002
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Program Comprehension as a Learning Process
The paper describes the process of program comprehension from the point of view of constructivist theory of learning. According to this view, program comprehension starts with the...
Václav Rajlich