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ER 2010: Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Applications and Challenges pp 244–254Cite as

Incorporating UML Class and Activity Constructs into UEML

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The Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) aims to become a hub for integrated use of enterprise and information systems (IS) models expressed using different languages. The paper explains how central constructs from UML’s class and activity diagrams have been incorporated into UEML. As a result, the semantics of UML’s central constructs for representing classes and activities have become more precisely defined in terms of the common UEML ontology. Through their ontology images, the two diagram types are also on the way to become interoperable with other enterprise and IS modelling languages in UEML.

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  1. Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, NO-5020, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

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  1. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, 03690, Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Gillian Dobbie

  3. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere, 33101, Tampere, Finland

    Hannu Kangassalo

  4. Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Sven Hartmann

  5. Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis, 138632, Singapore, Singapore

    Markus Kirchberg

  6. Information Systems Science, Aalto University School of Economics, P.O. Box 21210, FI-00076, Aalto, Finland

    Matti Rossi

  7. Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, 31905, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger

  8. Department of Computer and Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Esteban Zimányi

  9. Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, NL-3000, Rotterdam, DR, The Netherlands

    Flavius Frasincar

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Opdahl, A.L. (2010). Incorporating UML Class and Activity Constructs into UEML. In: Trujillo, J., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Applications and Challenges. ER 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6413. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16385-2_31

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