Graphical modeling is becoming an increasingly important part of software engineering as it
provides means of increasing productivity by raising the level of abstraction in software …

The emergence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has provided software developers
with an effective and efficient shared language. However, UML is often too restrictive in …

Abstract Model Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of models as primary artefacts
of a software development process, as an attempt to handle complexity through abstraction …

Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language to provide means of
customizing this general purpose modeling language for its usage in specific application …

Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in order to provide
a means of customizing the language for particular needs. The stereotypes can increase the …

In the past few years, model-driven software engineering (MDSE) and domain-specific
modeling languages (DSMLs) have received a lot of attention from both research and …

Over the past years Model-Driven Development (MDD) gained significant popularity. With
the usage of this paradigm the software engineering process becomes more model-centric …

Software modeling is a key activity in software development, especially when following any
kind of Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) process. In this context, standard …

Effective usage of a general purpose modeling language in software engineering poses a
need for language customization–adaptation of the language for a specific purpose. In the …

The design of modeling languages is still much more of an art than a science. There is as yet
no systematic consolidated body of knowledge that a practitioner can refer to when …