Identifying the weaknesses of UML class diagrams during data model comprehension

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6981 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 168-182

  Bavota, Gabriele ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^b   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a   Genero, Marcela ^c   Cruz Lemus, José Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DATA MODELING; ER DIAGRAMS; MULTI-VALUE; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MODELS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 80054079578     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24485-8_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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