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Visualization vs. Specification in Diagrammatic Notations: A Case Study with the UML

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2002)

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In the world of diagrammatic notations, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) should be of special interest for cognitive studies. On one hand, UML integrates a host of different diagrammatic languages in real engineering use, and thus studying it should be itself extremely interesting. On the other hand, UML is adopted as a standard in software industry, and has already become a standard de facto in object-oriented analysis and design. This property provides a real practical value for UML studies. However, despite its dramatically increasing popularity, UML’s drawbacks are well known and widely criticized. Currently, users and vendors associate their hopes on a better UML with the next version of the standard, UML 2.0, but it is commonly recognized that the problems standing in front of UML 2.0 are extremely hard [3]. So, careful cognitive analysis of UML appears to be an interesting, beneficial and urgent issue in the diagrammatic world.

Supported by Grants 93.315 and 96.0316 from the Latvia Council of Science

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  1. Z. Diskin. Visualization vs. specification in diagrammatic notations: A case study with the UML. Full version of the material in the present poster, ftp://ftp.fis.lv/pub/diskin/Diagrams02.ps, 2001

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  1. Frame Inform Systems, Ltd., Riga, Latvia

    Zinovy Diskin

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  1. University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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  2. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Bernd Meyer

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, 107 Dunstan Hall, 36849, Auburn, AL, USA

    N. Hari Narayanan

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Diskin, Z. (2002). Visualization vs. Specification in Diagrammatic Notations: A Case Study with the UML. In: Hegarty, M., Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46037-3_15

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