 Description
The competitiveness of organizations
facing globalization, information and communication technologies relies
on strategic issues such as reuse of knowledge from past experiences to
make higher quality decisions, deployment of innovative, fast
methodological approaches for solving problems and building systems.
Real-life systems are often multidisciplinary; their development
commands a uniform way of object modeling in order to close the loop of
various interactions crossing multiple domains.
An
innovative methodology, built on UML version 2 and MDA (Model Driven
Architecture), is proposed to explain how to design large-scale systems
and make software reuse a reality, how logical models can be built
progressively and transformed into business assets, how real time and
database systems can be integrated smoothly along a single development
stream. First, the metalanguage of UML is introduced as a lesson of
rigorous and meta system development. That helps developers to acquire
a deep understanding of meta elements of UML, rules that govern
connections. Second, thirteen UML diagrams are studied in details with
short examples. Third, fundamental modeling concepts are mapped into
UML objects and represented with diagrams that are the visual parts of
any CASE tool.
Two advanced research topics beyond UML
are exposed to complement the arsenal of development tools. A
state-event network (SEN), a new diagram based on Petri net, supports
dynamical studies and refines UML behavioral diagrams before
implementation. The "image attribute method" is a combinatorial
technique deployed to study dynamic behavior of safety-critical
systems; it takes internal state variables of an object, makes images
of surrounding objects interacting with this central object to explain
its complex behavior and thus, automate the design of algorithms.
One part of Real-Time Object Uniform Design Methodology with UML is
targeted to be used as a basic textbook in Computer Science for
teaching object modeling, fundamental concepts learning and system
designing with thirteen UML diagrams. Another part is devoted to
advanced research topics, samples and case studies. They are must
readings for any system developer or any graduate student in any
discipline that needs materials and thoughts for future developments,
the power of object modeling packed along a serious development
methodology.
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