The object constraint language: precise modeling with UML
The object constraint language: precise modeling with UML
Persistence modeling in the UML
Software Development
Semantics of Stereotypes for Type Specification in UML: Theory and Practice
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
OCL: Syntax, Semantics, and Tools
Object Modeling with the OCL, The Rationale behind the Object Constraint Language
Expressing UML Class Diagrams Properties with OCL
Object Modeling with the OCL, The Rationale behind the Object Constraint Language
Beyond Stereotyping: Metamodeling Approaches for the UML
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 3 - Volume 3
A classification of stereotypes for object-oriented modeling languages
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
First-class extensibility for UML packaging of profiles, stereotypes, patterns
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
An empirical assessment of using stereotypes to improve reading techniques in software inspections
3-WoSQ Proceedings of the third workshop on Software quality
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Quality software
Access control and audit model for the multidimensional modeling of data warehouses
Decision Support Systems
Developing secure data warehouses with a UML extension
Information Systems
Specifying and validating structural constraints of analysis class models using OCL
Information and Software Technology
Uses and abuses of the stereotype mechanism in UML 1.x and 2.0
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Extending the UML for designing association rule mining models for data warehouses
DaWaK'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
Properties of stereotypes from the perspective of their role in designs
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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Stereotypes are a powerful and potentially expressive extension mechanism in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). However, it seems that stereotypes are difficult to handle because using stereotypes needs an understanding of the UML metamodel and, in particular, an understanding of OCL constraints. Stereotypes are often applied in a wrong or at least sloppy way without proper declaration. There are also differences between the various versions of UML with respect to subtle details in the stereotype part. A graphical syntax for stereotypes including examples has been introduced only late in UML 1.4. Other difficulties are that constraints are used in the stereotype context in two completely different ways and that no full support of stereotypes is yet offered by tools. The paper points out these difficulties in detail, analyses the UML metamodel part dealing with stereotypes, and makes various suggestions for improving the definition and use of stereotypes.