A framework for reuse of multi-view UML artifacts
This work addresses software engineering challenges in UML modeling reuse, but appears incremental as it builds on existing multi-view retrieval concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of multi-view retrieval of UML models by identifying mapping issues between different viewpoints and proposing a framework for reusing UML artifacts to address these challenges.
Software is typically modeled from different viewpoints such as structural view, behavioral view and functional view. Few existing works can be considered as applying multi-view retrieval approaches. A number of important issues regarding mapping of entities during multi-view retrieval of UML models is identified in this study. In response, we describe a framework for reusing UML artifacts, and discuss how our retrieval approach tackles the identified issues.