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UML — A Universal Modeling Language?

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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto industrial standard of an object-oriented modeling language. It consists of several sublanguages which are suited to model structural and behavioral aspects of a software system. The UML was developed as a general-purpose language together with intrinsic features to extend the UML towards problem domain-specific profiles. The paper illustrates the language features of the UML and its adaptation mechanisms. As a conclusion, we show that the UML or an appropriate, to be defined core UML, respectively, may serve as a universal base of an object-oriented modeling language. But this core has to be adapted according to problem domain-specific requirements to yield an expressive and intuitive modeling language for a certain problem domain.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, D 33095, Paderborn, Germany

    Gregor Engels, Reiko Heckel & Stefan Sauer

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Engels, G., Heckel, R., Sauer, S. (2000). UML — A Universal Modeling Language?. In: Nielsen, M., Simpson, D. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets 2000. ICATPN 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1825. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44988-4_3

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