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Towards Dynamic Meta Modeling of UML Extensions: An Extensible Semantics for UML Sequence Diagrams

Overview The Unified Modeling Language has become the OMG standard in (object-oriented) software modeling. It promises an intuitive understandability by using diagram languages to represent structure and behavior of a software system. Nevertheless, it still lacks a precise and commonly agreed specification of its semantics. This hinders its use in practice since much time is wasted on clarifying a common understanding of the modeling artifacts. Thus, it is commonly agreed that a precise definition of UML's semantics is needed. Such a semantics specification must not only be formal, but also understandable by advanced modelers and tool developers. This paper will demonstrate its suitability to specify the semantics of language extensions.

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Publisher	University of Paderborn	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2001	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	UML

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