State-based composition in UML 2

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 987-1011

  Barbier, Franck ^a   Aretxandieta, Xabier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Composition; Software component; UML

Indexed keywords

BORON CARBIDE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; COMPOSITION; COMPOSITION MODELING; COMPOSITION MODELS; KEY MODELING; SERVICE COMPUTING; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; STATE-BASED; STATIC DEPENDENCIES; UML; UML METAMODEL; UNIFIED MODELING;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 62349141465     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194008003970     Document Type: Article

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