Toward formalizing domain modeling semantics in language syntax

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-37

  Evermann, Joerg ^a   Wand, Yair ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis; CASE; Design concepts; Methodologies; Object oriented design methods; Ontology; Specification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

APPLICATION DOMAIN; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN METHODS; ONTOLOGY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 17644403480     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.15     Document Type: Article

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