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Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements and Constructs

Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements and Constructs

Rosanne Price, Nectaria Tryfona, Christian S. Jensen
Copyright: © 2002 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781931777124|ISBN10: 1931777128|EISBN13: 9781931777339
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-931777-12-4.ch010
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Price, Rosanne, et al. "Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements and Constructs." Successful Software Reengineering, edited by Salvatore Valenti, IGI Global, 2002, pp. 143-170. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-931777-12-4.ch010

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Price, R., Tryfona, N., & Jensen, C. S. (2002). Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements and Constructs. In S. Valenti (Ed.), Successful Software Reengineering (pp. 143-170). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-931777-12-4.ch010

Chicago

Price, Rosanne, Nectaria Tryfona, and Christian S. Jensen. "Extended Spatiotemporal UML: Motivations, Requirements and Constructs." In Successful Software Reengineering, edited by Salvatore Valenti, 143-170. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2002. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-931777-12-4.ch010

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Abstract

This chapter presents a conceptual modeling language for spatiotemporal applications that offers built-in support for capturing spatially referenced, time-varying information. More specifically, the well-known object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) is extended to capture the semantics of spatiotemporal data. The extension, Extended Spatiotemporal UML, maintains language clarity and simplicity by introducing a small base set of fundamental modeling constructs: spatial, temporal, and thematic. These constructs can then be combined and applied at attribute, attribute group, association, and/or class levels of the object-oriented model; where the attribute group is an additional construct introduced for attributes with the same spatiotemporal properties. A formal functional specification of the semantic modeling constructs and their symbolic combinations is given and an example is used to illustrate the simplicity and flexibility of this approach.

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