In building software architectures, the relations between elements in different diagrams are
often overlooked. The first stage of building IT systems is the use of ontology terminology …

Modeling software components from multiple perspectives provides complementary views of
a software system and enables sophisticated analyses of its functionality. A software …

We present a software architecture-based approach to compositional estimation of system's
reliability. Our approach is applicable to early stages of development when the …

The ultimate goal of software design is to transform real world problems into software
solutions. Architectural design is the earliest phase of this process. It is a phase in which …

The paper considers the problem of consistency within and between artefacts used or
produced in software development processes based on UML. We analyse the structure of …

ABSTRACT A software component is typically modeled from one or more of four functional
aspects: interface, static behavior, dynamic behavior, and interaction protocol. Each of these …

Currently, no single UML diagram provides the satisfactory completeness and consistency of
the system description. There is also no BPMN diagram to satisfy such requirements. The …

This paper presents visual constraint diagrams (VCD), an extension to UML (Unified
Modeling Language) object diagrams for expressing constraints over object models. VCD …

We present an approach and a tool to analyze the consistency of UML class and statechart
diagrams containing state invariants automatically. UML class diagrams describe the …