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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Reduction of UML Class Diagrams

Girts Linde

subject

UML toolTheoretical computer scienceComputer scienceCommunication diagramComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMScomputer.software_genreUnified Modeling LanguageSystems Modeling LanguageClass diagramEquivalence (formal languages)Computer-aided software engineeringcomputerComputer Science::Databasescomputer.programming_language

description

One and the same “real world” can be modeled by different UML class diagrams, which in such a case can be considered “intuitively equivalent”. A formalization of this “intuitive equivalence” of class diagrams is proposed. An algorithm is constructed that for two class diagrams determines if they model the same “real world”. This algorithm can be used in CASE tools to compare alternative models of a system, and for diagram “compression” to facilitate understanding of large diagrams.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2002-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9978-8_16