Semantic integration of UML class diagram with semantic validation on segments of mappings
This work addresses software development challenges for distributed teams using UML models, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing alignment and integration techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of integrating UML class diagrams from geographically distributed teams by using mappings from alignment results and validating those mappings to ensure correctness, consistency, and coherence in the integrated model.
Recently, attention has focused on the software development, specially by differ-ent teams that are geographically distant to support collaborative work. Manage-ment, description and modeling in such collaborative approach are through sever-al tools and techniques based on UML models. It is now supported by a large number of tools. Most of these systems have the ability to compare different UML models, assist developers, designers and also provide operations for the merging and integration, to produce a coherent model. The contribution in this ar-ticle is both to integrate a set of UML class diagrams using mappings that are re-sult of alignment and assist designers and developers in the integration. In addi-tion, we will present a detail integration of UML models with the validation of mappings between them. Such validation helps to achieve correct, consistent and coherent integrated model.