A class diagram describes the attributes and operations of a class and also the constraints imposed on the system. Class diagrams are widely used in the modeling of object-oriented systems because ...

Products such as Visual Paradigm, StarUml, and Papyrus have been released to improve understanding of OOP. However, the above products are not efficient and do not provide convenience to users because ...

The paper presents a video-based exploratory study that seeks to understand how developers modify UML class diagram layouts for better readability and comprehension of the system. Two diagram layouts ...

It then goes on to provide an approach to the use of the UML notation for producing a truly conceptual, architectural entity/relationship diagram.] Summary of the Approach To create a conceptual ...

This article deals with the issue of how to semi-automatically validate novice programmers' UML class diagrams which document their software assignments. This problem is rather serious given the large ...

This article, Part 2 of a three-part series, addresses sub-types, domains and unique identifiers, as well as what in UML should not be used in a data model.