Journal of Database Management articles from October 2000

Journal of Database Management archives from October 2000

Systems Analysis and Design Using UML.(Technology Information)
October 1, 2000... The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been adopted by the Object Management Group as a standard language for object-oriented systems development. Despite the increasing popularity of UML, many researchers and practitioners have raised...

Formal Approaches to Systems Analysis Using UML: An Overview.(Technology Information)
October 1, 2000... Formal methods, whereby a system is described and/or analyzed using precise mathematical techniques, is a well-established and yet, under-used approach for developing software systems. One of the reasons for this is that project deadlines often...

Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements, and Constructs.(Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 2000... This paper presents a conceptual modeling language for spatiotemporal applications that offers built-in support for capturing spatially referenced, time-varying information. More specifically, the well known object-oriented Unified Modeling...

Understanding the Role of Use Cases in UML: A Review and Research Agenda(1).(Technology Information)
October 1, 2000... A use case is a description of a sequence of actions constituting a complete task or transaction in an application. Use cases were first proposed by Jacobson (1987) and have since been incorporated as one of the key modeling constructs in UML...

Unifying Enterprise Development Teams with the UML.(Technology Information)
October 1, 2000... There is a fundamental paradox at play in contemporary software development. On the one hand, organizations are faced with the demand for faster time to market; on the other hand, these same organizations are under pressure to deliver systems...