Abstract Model Driven Software Development (MDD) is a vision of software development
where models play a core role as primary development artifacts. Its industrial adoption …

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 …

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 …

Introducing measurement programs into organizations is a lengthy process affected by
organizational and technical constraints. There exist several aspects that determine whether …

Abstract Introducing Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) into industrial projects is
rarely done as a “green field” development. The usual path is to make a transition from code …

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 …

Stereotypes in object-oriented software development can be perceived in various ways and
they can be used for various purposes. As a consequence of these variations, assessing …

In this chapter we describe and elaborate on software development processes in the
automotive industry. We introduce the V-model for the entire vehicle development and we …

One of the basic activities within the software development process is the performing of
model transformations. This work presents two techniques for realizing transformations of …

Abstract The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is becoming the lingua franca in software
development. One of the reasons of its popularity is the possibility to enrich the set of …