Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Pattern languages of program design
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
A toolkit for weaving aspect oriented UML designs
AOSD '02 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Using UML Action Semantics for Executable Modeling and Beyond
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A UML-Based Pattern Specification Technique
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Precise Modeling of Design Patterns in UML
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Visualizing Design Patterns in Their Applications and Compositions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An approach to precisely specifying the problem domain of design patterns
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Evaluating pattern conformance of UML models: a divide-and-conquer approach and case studies
Software Quality Control
Assessing conformance of pattern-based design in UML
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX
A family of languages for architecture constraint specification
Journal of Systems and Software
Design pattern solutions as explicit entities in component-based software development
Proceedings of the 16th international workshop on Component-oriented programming
Enforcing S&D pattern design in RCES with modeling and formal approaches
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
A metamodeling approach to pattern specification
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
A tool for a formal pattern modeling language
ICFEM'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
A rigorous foundation for pattern-based design models
ZB'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in Z and B
Code generation from UML models with semantic variation points
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Precise specification of design pattern structure and behaviour
ECMFA'10 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
Sharing bad practices in design to improve the use of patterns
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
Required behavior of sequence diagrams: Semantics and conformance
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for precisely representing design patterns. It is true that some graphical annotations related to parameterized collaborations can be drawn on a UML model, but even the most classical GoF patterns, such as Observer, Composite or Visitor cannot be modeled precisely this way. We thus propose a minimal set of modifications to the UML 1.3 meta-model to make it possible to model design patterns and represent their occurrences in UML, opening the way for some automatic processing of pattern applications within CASE tools. We illustrate our proposal by showing how the Visitor and Observer patterns can be precisely modeled and combined together using our UMLAUT tool. We conclude on the generality of our approach, as well as its perspectives in the context of the definition of UML 2.0.