How the UML models fit together
Software Development
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
On formalizing UML with high-level petri nets
Concurrent object-oriented programming and petri nets
A methodology for specifying and analyzing consistency of object-oriented behavioral models
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm
Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm
An Initial Experimental Assessment of the Dynamic Modelling in UML
Empirical Software Engineering
A Formal Framework for Viewpoint Consistency
Formal Methods in System Design
The Model Multiplicity Problem: Experimenting with Real-Time Specification Methods
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Synthesis of Behavioral Models from Scenarios
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Integrating Semantics for Object-Oriented System Models
ICALP '01 Proceedings of the 28th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming,
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Documentation
OPM vs. UML—Experimenting with Comprehension and Construction of Web Application Models
Empirical Software Engineering
Putting the "Engineering" into Software Engineering with Models
MISE '07 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering
Pattern Repositories for Software Engineering Education
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Databases and Information Systems IV: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Baltic Conference DB&IS'2006
Analyzing object-oriented design patterns from an object-process viewpoint
NGITS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
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In the last decade UML has emerged as the standard object-oriented conceptual modeling language. Since UML is a combination of previous languages, such as Booch, OMT, Statecharts, etc., the creation of multi-views within UML was unavoidable. These views, which represent different aspects of system structure and behavior, overlap, raising consistency and integration problems. Moreover, the object-oriented nature of UML sets the ground for several behavioral views in UML, each of which is a different alternative for representing behavior. In this paper I suggest a Top-Level Object-Oriented Framework (TLOOF) for UML models. This framework, which serves as the glue of use case, class, and interaction diagrams, enables changing the refinement level of a model without losing the comprehension of the system as a whole and without creating contradictions among the mentioned structural and behavioral views. Furthermore, the suggested framework does not add new classifiers to the UML metamodel, hence, it does not complicate UML.