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Unified Modeling Language

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UML; Unified modeling language

Definition

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. UML offers a standard way to write a system’s blueprints, including conceptual things such as business processes and system functions as well as concrete things such as programming language statements, database schemas, and reusable software components [8].

Historical Background

The UML is based on earlier software design approaches, among them the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) [9], Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) [1], and Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) [6] and other important techniques [5]. The UML was standardized in various versions by the Object Modeling Group (OMG) [8]. Authors of the predecessor techniques have published a comprehensive description of the UML [10]. Questions strongly related to UML are discussed at the UML and MODELS...

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  1. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Martin Gogolla

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    David W. Embley

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Gogolla, M. (2018). Unified Modeling Language. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_440

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