NII Technical Report (NII-2006-009E)

Title Contradiction Finding and Minimal Recovery for UML Class Diagrams using Logic Programming
Authors Ken Satoh, Ken Kaneiwa, Takeaki Uno
Abstract UML (Unified Modeling Language) is the de facto standard model representation language in software engineering. We believe that automated contradiction detection and repair of UML becomes very important as UML has been widely used. In this paper, we propose a debugging system using logic programming paradigm for UML class diagram with class attributes, multiplicity, generalization relation and disjoint relation. We propose a translation method of a UML class diagram into a logic program, and using a meta-interpreter we can find minimal sets of rules which leads to contradiction. Then, we use a minimal hitting set algorithm developed by one of the authors to show minimal sets of deletion of rules in order to avoid contradiction.
Language English
Published Jun 20, 2006
Pages 9p
PDF File 06-009E.pdf



ISSN:1346-5597
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National Institute of Informatics