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This paper presents a semantic framework for a large part of UML, and gives a set of transformations on UML models based on this semantics. These transformations can be used to enhance, rationalise, refine or abstract UML models.
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Lano, K., Bicarregui, J. (1999). Semantics and Transformations for UML Models. In: Bézivin, J., Muller, PA. (eds) The Unified Modeling Language. «UML»’98: Beyond the Notation. UML 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48480-6_9
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