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The UML Family: Profiles, Prefaces and Packages

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This paper overviews the status of UML (Unified Modeling Language) considered as a family of languages, and reviews critically various approaches to defining variants of UML within this family.

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Cook, S. (2000). The UML Family: Profiles, Prefaces and Packages. In: Evans, A., Kent, S., Selic, B. (eds) ≪UML≫ 2000 — The Unified Modeling Language. UML 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40011-7_18

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