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An Eclipse Plugin for Validating Names in UML Conceptual Schemas

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling. Recent Developments and New Directions (ER 2011)

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Many authors agree on the importance of choosing good names for conceptual schema elements. Several proposals of naming guidelines are available in the literature, but the support offered by current CASE tools is very limited and, in many cases, insufficient. In this demonstration we present an Eclipse plugin that implements a specific proposal of naming guidelines. The implemented proposal provides a guideline for every kind of named element in UML. By using this plugin, the modelers can automatically check whether the names they gave to UML elements are grammatically correct and generate a verbalization that can be analysed by domain experts.

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  1. Department of Service and Information System Engineering, BarcelonaTech – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    David Aguilera, Raúl García-Ranea, Cristina Gómez & Antoni Olivé

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Olga De Troyer

  2. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Av Albert Einstein 1251, 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Claudia Bauzer Medeiros

  3. Geomatics Unit, Université de Liège, 17 Allée du 6 Août, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Roland Billen  & Pierre Hallot  & 

  4. HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Alkis Simitsis

  5. Business Development and Academic Relations Belgium-Luxembourg, Bourgetlaan, Avenue du Bourget 42, 1130, Brussel, Belgium

    Hans Van Mingroot

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Aguilera, D., García-Ranea, R., Gómez, C., Olivé, A. (2011). An Eclipse Plugin for Validating Names in UML Conceptual Schemas. In: De Troyer, O., Bauzer Medeiros, C., Billen, R., Hallot, P., Simitsis, A., Van Mingroot, H. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. Recent Developments and New Directions. ER 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24574-9_41

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