The UML modeler is built on top of the Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit, so you'll need to download and install the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling ...

In the latest years, the usage of UML to describe complete systems, including SoCs [1], has been increased. In trend with this line, this work proposes a methodology, based on UML, for SoCs designing ...

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...

In-Depth From UML to Design by Contract By Christine Mingins, Yu Liu April 1, 2001 A trustworthy, reusable component will clearly advertise the set of services it provides in its interface. More ...

Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kinds of patterns, which we refer to as ...

The UML core comprises use cases to model requirements and classes and objects to model system structure, while statecharts and sequence diagrams model behavior.

The Unified Modeling Language, widely used by software designers but little-known among their hardware counterparts, could be on its way to becoming a lingua franca for system-level modeling. But even ...

Many UML 2.0 products have been able to generate code for languages like Ada, C, C++, and Java from UML (Universal Modeling Language) models. Typically, though, the C developer was expected to ...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) represents a logical view of your application. This is distinct from the physical view represented by the Class Diagrams available in all SKUs of Visual Studio.