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Formal Definition and Refinement of UML’s Module/Package Concept

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Object-Oriented Technologys (ECOOP 1997)

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UML is the first OO modeling language with a useful modularization and information hiding concept which supports nesting, import, and refinement. This paper translates UML’s informal package definition into predicate logic formulas and solves some open problems concerning the visibility of exported and imported elements.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    Andy Schürr & Andreas J. Winter

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Business Administration, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK

    Stuart Mitchell

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Schürr, A., Winter, A.J. (1998). Formal Definition and Refinement of UML’s Module/Package Concept. In: Bosch, J., Mitchell, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Technologys. ECOOP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69687-3_43

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