An approach for the detection of structural patterns based on UML class diagrams is presented. By using a fuzzy-like evaluation mechanism the introduced approach is able to recognize not only entire patterns but also incomplete instances. Referring to structural patterns in general the knowledge about used patterns assists a developer not only while maintaining or reverse engineering existing s...

Object Modeling Technique is widely applied in the field of software engineering; and in this paper we applied this technique to model a mobile robot including its behaviors and interactions with environment. The paper first describes key background knowledge about object oriented analysis in software engineering, behavior based robotics and their similarities. Then, based on these similarities...

The UML sequence diagram is the second most common that represents how objects interact and exchange messages over time. Sequence diagrams show events or activities in a use case are mapped into operations of object classes class diagram. general acceptance can be attributed to their relatively intuitive nature ability describe partial behaviors (as opposed such as state charts). However, studi...

Most of the research related to Non Functional Requirements (NFRs) have presented NFRs frameworks by integrating non functional requirements with functional requirements while we proposed that measurement of NFRs is possible e.g. cost and performance and NFR like usability can be scaled. Our novel hybrid approach integrates three things rather than two i.e. Functional Requirements (FRs), Measur...

A lot of work has been done in order to put the Unified Modeling Language (UML) on a formal basis by translating concepts into various formal languages, e.g., set theory or graph transformation. While the abstract UML syntax is defined by using an endogenous approach, i. e., UML describes its abstract syntax using UML, this approach is rarely used for its semantics. This paper shows how to appl...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is considered as one of the widespread modeling language standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG). Therefore, the model driving engineering (MDE) community attempts to provide reuse of UML diagrams, and do not construct it from scratch. The UML model appears according to a specific software development process. The existing method generation models focus...