The Unified Modeling Language (UML) [1] is a language for specifying, visualizing and documenting object-oriented systems. It serves as a standard OO modeling notation and has powerful tool supports like Rational Rose [2]. It became popular among the industrial community mainly because it provides visual, intuitively appealing graphical notations and structuring mechanisms. However, a major dra...

In this paper we present a new method to estimate the size of a software project developed following the object-oriented paradigm. The method is designed to work with a set of UML diagrams describing the most important system features. We calculate the complexity of a system in terms of source lines of code. Outstanding features of our method are its flexibility (allowing estimation of projects...

Coastal communities are becoming increasingly more vulnerable to storm surges under a changing climate. Tide gauges can be used to monitor alongshore variations of a storm surge, but not cross-shelf features. In this study we combine Jason-2 satellite measurements with tide-gauge data to study the storm surge caused by Hurricane Igor off Newfoundland. Satellite observations reveal a storm surge...

This paper presents a methodology to automate natural language requirements analysis and class model generation based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Use-case language schemas are proposed to reduce complexity and vagueness of natural language. Some rules are identified and used to automate class model generation from use-case specifications. A CASE tool named Use-Case driven Development...

Nowadays development environments are required to be open: users want to be able to work with a combination of their preferred commercial and home-grown tools. TakeFive has opened up SNiFF+ with a so-called "Symbol Table API"; Rational has opened up the UML tool Rose via the so-called "Rose Extensibility Interface (REI)". On the other hand, efforts are underway to define standards for exchangin...

rosa damascena mill l., known as gole mohammadi in iran is one of the most important species of rosaceae family flowers. r. damascena is an ornamental plant and beside perfuming effect, several pharmacological properties including anti-hiv, antibacterial, antioxidant, antitussive, hypnotic, antidiabetic, and relaxant effect on tracheal chains have been reported for this plant. this article is a...

Objective: Rose oil is obtained from the petals of difference Rosa species especially Rosa centifolia L. and Rosa damascena Mill. Various pharmacological properties have been attributed to rose oil. The aim of the present study was to review the rose oil therapeutic effects which had been clinically evaluated in trial studies. Materials and Methods: Google scholar, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and...

Lake Michigan rose to record high water levels in the 2010s; during this time, some coastal sites experienced habitat loss rates an order of magnitude higher than previous periods throughout 20th century. The and rapid rate rise observed 2012–2020 period combination with a slight increase percentage storm waves likely accelerated beyond that were over past Our data suggest relatively large chan...

introduction thermal infrared integrated dust index (tiidi) is one of indices that is presented in this direction. the index operates based on four brightness temperature difference including wavelengths 3.7, 8.6, 11 and 12 micrometer. according to the studies, btd (bt12-bt11) is used for cloud detection. btd (bt8.6-bt11) is the index for separation for dust from sandy surface and btd (bt3.7-bt...