Abstract
In the last years, UML has been tailored to be used as a domain-specific modelling notation in several contexts. Extending UML with this purpose entails several advantages: the integration of the domain in a standard framework; its potential usage by the software engineering community; and the existence of supporting tools. In previous work, we explored one particular issue of heavyweight extensions, namely, the definition of inducing meta-associations in metamodels as a way to induce the presence of specific relation-ships in their instances. Those relationships were intended by the metamodel specifier but not forced by the metamodel itself. However, our work was restricted to the case of induced associations. This paper proposes an extension to the general case in which inducing metaassociations may force the existence of arbitrary relationships at M1. To attain this goal, we provide a general defini-tion of inducing metaassociation that covers all the possible cases. After revisi-ting induced associations, we show the inducement of the other relationship types defined in UML: association classes, generalization and dependencies.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish project TIN2007-64753.
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Burgués, X., Franch, X., Ribó, J.M. (2009). Inducing Metaassociations and Induced Relationships. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_14
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