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A Meta-model Facility for a Family of UML Constraint Languages

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With the move towards UML becoming a family of modelling languages, there is a need to view the Object Constraint Language in the same light. The aim of this paper is to identify a meta-modelling facility that encompasses the specification of the semantics of a family of object constraint languages. This facility defines a common set of model concepts, semantic domain concepts and semantic mappings that can be conveniently reused when constructing new family members.

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  1. Department of Computing, Kings College, London, UK

    Tony Clark

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Andy Evans

  3. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Stuart Kent

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  1. Department of Computer Science, King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, UK

    Tony Clark

  2. Klasse Objecten, Postbus 3082, 3760, DB Soest, The Netherlands

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Clark, T., Evans, A., Kent, S. (2002). A Meta-model Facility for a Family of UML Constraint Languages. In: Clark, T., Warmer, J. (eds) Object Modeling with the OCL. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45669-4_2

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