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Since the early 1980's, modeling has been prescribed for helpingsoftware developers to understand their systems as they analyze theproblem, design a solution, and implement and deliver an ...

According to Gartner Inc. analyst Chris Duggan, there are six main areas where UML has problems. 1. Coupling to the business process. "Our client base wants something that lets them talk to the ...

In recent years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been successfully used to develop many embedded applications, including avionics, automotive, medical, industrial automation, and ...

As system engineers explore therequirements for a system and begin to define a high-levelsolution, they face a number of challenges, including defining thesystem context and top-level structure; ...

Soon you’ll be able to take advantage of elaborated interfaces and ports, interaction fragments and operators, plus better modeling of behavior over time. DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete ...

SysML, the dedicated system level UML-based notation proposed by the OMG, is gaining a lot of momentum as a system level design standard. Design productivity is one of the main challenges facing the ...

In his Sept. 24 Computerworld column, “Five Diagrams Beat a ‘Victorian Novel’ Text Specification,” Michael Hugos states that Unified Modeling Language “can probably be blamed for many failed system ...

Put a bunch of thirtysomething programmers together and they’ll soon start talking about their first machines Ah, the TRS-80, or PDP-11, or Apple II. Those were the days, weren’t they? You really knew ...