Towards overcoming deficiencies in constraint diagrams

Gem Stapleton; Aidan Delaney

doi:10.1109/VLHCC.2007.13

Towards overcoming deficiencies in constraint diagrams

Gem Stapleton, Aidan Delaney

University of Brighton

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Abstract

The constraint diagram language was designed to be used in conjunction with the Unified Modelling Language (UML), primarily for placing formal constraints on software models. In particular, constraint diagrams play a similar role to the textual Object Constraint Language in that they can be used for specifying system invariants and operation contracts in the context of a UML model. Constraint diagrams can also be used independently of the UML. In this paper, we illustrate a range of counter-intuitive features of constraint diagrams and highlight some (potential) expressiveness limitations. We propose a generalized version of the constraint diagram language that overcomes the illustrated counter-intuitive features and limitations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Place of Publication	USA
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	33-40
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9780769529875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007
Event	Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing - Coeur d'Alène, Idaho, USA, 23-27 September, 2007 Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

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Conference	Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Period	1/01/07 → …

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Constraint diagrams
UML

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