Developing a data warehouse (DW) is a complex, time consuming and prone to fail task. Different DW models and methods have been presented during the last few years. However, none of them addresses the whole development process in an integrated manner. In this paper, we present a DW development method, based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Unified Process (UP), which addresses the...

Business modeling is an important activity in software development, and the Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) provides a systematic approach to visually representing a business mode. It does not, however, provide a way to derive simulation models that support quantitative comparisons between various improvement options. Last month, in Part I of this series, we defined a Unified Modeling Language...

Giving the current trend to combine the advantages of Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) with the Cloud Computing technology, this work proposes a set of specifications, based on the Unified Modeling Language UML, in order to provide the general framework for the design of the integration of said components. One of the keys of the integration is the architecture of the WSAN, due to its ...

Syntax The abstract syntax is presented in a UML class diagram showing the metaclasses defining theconstructs and their relationships. The diagram also presents some of the well-formedness rules,mainly the multiplicity requirements of the relationships, and whether or not the instances of aparticular sub-construct must be ordered. Finally, a short informal description in natural...

Web transactions may be complex, composed of several sub-transactions accessing different resources including legacy systems. They may also have complex semantics. To deal with complex web applications, transaction design methodologies and tools need to be very flexible allowing for designing web applications from scratch (top-down design), as well as using existing systems or services to compo...

Syntax The abstract syntax is presented in a UML class diagram showing the metaclasses defining theconstructs and their relationships. The diagram also presents some of the well-formedness rules,mainly the multiplicity requirements of the relationships, and whether or not the instances of aparticular sub-construct must be ordered. Finally, a short informal description in natural...

Versatile description languages such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are commonly used in software engineering across different application domains in theory and practice. They often use graphical notations and leverage visual memory for expressing complex relations. Those notations are hard to access for people with visual impairment and impede their smooth inclusion in an engineering t...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is getting more popular among system designers due to the need to raise the level of abstraction in system specifications. We present here a methodology that integrates UML specifications with a hardware/software codesign platform. This work aims to give a contribution toward SoC Design Automation starting from system level specification down to hardware/soft...

Business architects and process engineers, when modelling their organisation or parts of it, prefer not to use the Unified Modelling Language (UML) as they find UML too technical for their taste. Instead they use their own modelling languages, which are more intuitive for formulating business-oriented models. As these techniques are often less formalized or widely used, tool support is usually ...

Nowadays, most of the universities and schools are facing problems to check the performance of the student during or at end of the course. Because the universities and schools are time bounded and due to that there is a current need to get a model that helps to check the performance of the above problem. In this paper author proposed a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class model for checking th...