The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
Three dimensional software modelling
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Towards three-dimensional representation and animation of UML diagrams
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
Advances in information visualisation: recent outcomes
The Knowledge Engineering Review
X3D-UML: 3D UML State Machine Diagrams
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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Different approaches support the construction of software by representing certain aspects of a system graphically. Recently, the UML has become common to provide software designers with tools, in which they can create visual representations of software interactively. But the UML is intended to be drawn on two-dimensional surfaces. Our approach extends UML into a third and fourth dimension in a way that we can place both static and dynamic aspects in one single view. By this, we can show behavior in the context of structural aspects, instead of drawing different diagrams for each aspect with only loose relation to each other. We also use the third dimension to emphasize important things and to place less interesting things in the background. Thereby, we direct the viewer's attention to the important things in the foreground. Currently, UML shows dynamic behavior by diagrams which do not change and are therefore static in nature. In sequence diagrams, for example, time elapses from the top of the diagram to the bottom. We point out that behavior is better visualized by animated diagrams where message symbols move from the sender object to the receiver object. Our approach supports the creation of a system as well as the communication of its dynamic processes especially to customers.