Enhancing UML models: A domain analysis approach

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Abstract

UML has been largely adopted as a standard modeling language. The emergence of UML from different modeling languages that refer to various system aspects causes a wide variety of completeness and correctness problems in UML models. Several methods have been proposed for dealing with correctness issues, mainly providing internal consistency rules but ignoring correctness and completeness with respect to the system requirements and the domain constraints. In this article, we propose addressing both completeness and correctness problems of UML models by adopting a domain analysis approach called application-based domain modeling (ADOM). We present experimental results from our study which checks the quality of application models when utilizing ADOM on UML. The results advocate that the availability of the domain model helps achieve more complete models without reducing the comprehension of these models.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)74-94
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of Database Management
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Keywords

  • Domain analysis
  • Model completeness
  • Model correctness
  • Object-oriented analysis
  • Object-oriented design
  • Software development methodologies
  • UML

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture

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